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Making IDA21 Work for Africa
A successful replenishment of IDA requires individual and collective efforts from the World Bank Group,...
Making Africa’s credit ratings more objective
In recent decades, the financing for development landscape has changed dramatically, with aid flows declining...
What would effective credit ratings reform for Africa look like?
Since the dawn of the new millennium, African countries have increasingly turned to international capital...
Embracing green hydrogen to power Africa’s green growth
For a continent that contributes less than four percent of global greenhouse emissions and has...
Can ‘Africa Club’ be Africa’s magic bullet for reforming the global financial architecture?
The global upheavals triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent conflicts in Eastern Europe and...
How Africa can move closer to a greener future in 2024
As 2023 drew to a close, Africa found itself standing at a crucial crossroads in...
How Africa can overcome its methane financing challenge
The last decade has been characterized by a heightened push to reduce carbon emissions globally....
What should Africa expect from COP28
The most important event on climate change is about to begin. World leaders, heads of...
Africa needs a transformative methane strategy at COP28
To accelerate methane action, Africa needs a transformative strategy that will reduce perceptions of risk...
Attracting private sector finance to spearhead Africa’s development
For years, the private sector has been acclaimed as the critical engine of Africa’s development....
