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Framing the Issues: Building Securitization Markets in Africa to Advance the SDGs
Despite their promise, securitization markets are under-developed in many developing and emerging m
arket countries, including across the continent of Africa, where the SDG financing gap is the widest.
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Accelerating Securitization in Africa to Finance the SDGs: Future Flow Securitizations
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) set an ambitious development agenda to reduce poverty by 2
030 and an equally ambitious agenda to finance them.
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Africa: Next Frontier for the Creative Economy
The digital and creative economies in Africa continue to expand. While the continent’s digital e
conomy is projected to grow six times by 2050 to over $700 billion, the creative artistic economy is especially explosive.
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What's Next for Impact Investing in Africa?
An estimated $4 trillion is needed annually from private investors to help finance development p
riorities and accelerate sustainable, inclusive growth around the world.
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Africa in the Driver’s Seat: The New Rush for Africa (Invite only)
With increasing trade and financial flows across the "global South," rising food and resource in
security in more developed markets, and the growing scramble for cobalt, lithium and other "rare earths", African countries are being courted on many sides f
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Vivian Nwakah: Advancing Equitable Access to Safer Medication in Africa
COVID-19 Africa Watch talks to Vivian Nwakah, Founder and CEO of Medsaf, about addressing the inef
ficiencies and inequalities in African healthcare systems.
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Frank Aswani: Strengthening Africa’s Social Investment Ecosystem to Help Tackle COVID-19
COVID-19 Africa Watch talks to Dr. Frank Aswani about ways to bolster Africa’s social investment e
cosystem to help the continent’s economic recovery from the pandemic.
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Scaling Innovation: Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech Award Announcement and Reception
The Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize Program is a collaboration between the Milken Institute and
the Motsepe Foundation advancing technological progress towards the UN SDGs.
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Emerging Markets: Clearer Skies Ahead
As emerging economies in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia continue to recover from the
COVID-19 pandemic, many emerging market economies look better positioned than they were during the Global Financial Crisis.
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Strategic Philanthropy Around the World
From ubuntu in Southern Africa to sadaka enriching Swahili, to zakat and tzedaka among related t
erms for the same benefit in the cultures of the Near and Middle East, philanthropy around the world is anything but one-size-fits-all.
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Democratizing Capital for Energy and Sustainable Growth Transitions
If COP 27 proved anything, it is that pledges to achieve sustainable development, resilience, an
d technology solutions will not be met by unfunded pledges at international conferences, but by rational financing.
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Frontier Market Investing: Outlook, Risks, and the $Trillion Opportunity
Investing in emerging and frontier markets entails a level of risk that keeps many investors awa
y. But in many cases, these countries have the fastest-growing economies, with massive consumer markets and major infrastructure opportunities.
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