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Framing the Issues: Developing Capital Markets in Rwanda
How should Rwanda develop its capital markets? This was the subject of a three-day roundtable discu
ssion held in October 2015 in Rubavu, Rwanda.
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video
Building Tomorrow's Agents of Change Across Africa
By the close of the century, sub-Saharan Africa will be the world's most populous region. Growth a
nd prosperity will depend not on natural resources, but on the talent and entrepreneurial energy of the region's young professionals.
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video
Start-up Nations: Creating Laboratories for Developing Economies
Emerging and frontier markets have eclipsed the advanced economies in GDP share and growth, just a
s the New World surpassed the Old at the end of the 19th century.
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article
Using Google Mobility Data to Assess COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies in East Africa
“We look at mobility data from Google to see how effective four East African countries have been in
reducing social interaction in line with the kind of suppression strategies health experts were recommending at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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article
The Initial Policy Response to COVID-19 from African Central Banks
In response to COVID-19, African central banks have deployed a variety of monetary policy tools, inc
luding lowering policy rates, reducing capital requirements, providing various liquidity support measures to the banking sector, allowing loan deferrals
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