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Making IDA21 Work for Africa
A successful replenishment of IDA requires individual and collective efforts from the World Bank Group, donors and borrowing countries, and…
Making Africa’s credit ratings more objective
In recent decades, the financing for development landscape has changed dramatically, with aid flows declining relative to investment and borrowing…
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 markets to fund their development…
Embracing green hydrogen to power Africa’s green growth
For a continent that contributes less than four percent of global greenhouse emissions and has made incremental strides towards renewables,…
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 the Middle East have intensified…
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 its pursuit of sustainable development.…
How Africa can overcome its methane financing challenge
The last decade has been characterized by a heightened push to reduce carbon emissions globally. In Africa, concerted efforts to…
What should Africa expect from COP28
The most important event on climate change is about to begin. World leaders, heads of multilateral institutions, civil society advocates,…
Africa needs a transformative methane strategy at COP28
To accelerate methane action, Africa needs a transformative strategy that will reduce perceptions of risk associated with investment projects, introduce…
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. It accounts for over 80%…
AGOA’s successes in Africa demand an extension
Since its enactment in 2000, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has been at the core of commercial and…
Africa’s Development Dilemma: Why Public-Private Partnerships Aren’t Meeting Expectations
Africa faces serious infrastructure gaps as over 600 million people are estimated to lack access to electricity, and 60% of…