This paper studies the opportunities and barriers for Sovereign Wealth Funds’ (SWFs) investments in Africa. Based on historical databases on SWFs’ transactions, it shows that SWFs can facilitate up to 50% of the investment needs in infrastructure in Africa over the next decade to meet the Millennium Development Goals over the 2010-20 decade, and that African economies can benefit highly from the rising investor interest, which stretches increasingly beyond natural resources. However, there are specific barriers to SWF investments. Some of them are structural (lack of technologies; small size, low liquidity and fragmentation of markets; bad sovereign ratings; weak regulatory framework; lack of capacity building), requiring long-term changes,...
Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries rely heavily on donor assistance and international borrowing. Th...
In Sub-Saharan Africa, like many other third world and former Soviet bloc countries, economic develo...
The need for infrastructure finance in Africa is tremendous. A 2009 report by the World Bank suggest...
Résumé Les fonds souverains (FS) ont assis leur notoriété à l’échelle de tous les continents. L’Af...
The discovery of natural resources in a developing country is not generally the good news it appears...
In April, 2008, World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, called for sovereign wealth funds to invest...
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) can be effective tools for national resources revenue management. Thes...
What are SWFs? Transparency. How to acces SWFs sustainability? Redistribution of revenues. Sustaina...
The costs of doing business in Africa have historically been great, but the socio-economic achieveme...
Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Managemen...
During recent two decades the world has witnessed a drastic increase in global FDI inflows. Graduall...
Taking stock of long-term finance for sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) involves s...
Sovereign Development Funds : Key Financial Actors of the Shifting Wealth of Nations The emergence o...
Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWFs) is important participant in global financial market. Although they were...
This paper studies the appropriate financing structure of infrastructure investment in Africa. It st...
Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries rely heavily on donor assistance and international borrowing. Th...
In Sub-Saharan Africa, like many other third world and former Soviet bloc countries, economic develo...
The need for infrastructure finance in Africa is tremendous. A 2009 report by the World Bank suggest...
Résumé Les fonds souverains (FS) ont assis leur notoriété à l’échelle de tous les continents. L’Af...
The discovery of natural resources in a developing country is not generally the good news it appears...
In April, 2008, World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, called for sovereign wealth funds to invest...
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) can be effective tools for national resources revenue management. Thes...
What are SWFs? Transparency. How to acces SWFs sustainability? Redistribution of revenues. Sustaina...
The costs of doing business in Africa have historically been great, but the socio-economic achieveme...
Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Managemen...
During recent two decades the world has witnessed a drastic increase in global FDI inflows. Graduall...
Taking stock of long-term finance for sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) involves s...
Sovereign Development Funds : Key Financial Actors of the Shifting Wealth of Nations The emergence o...
Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWFs) is important participant in global financial market. Although they were...
This paper studies the appropriate financing structure of infrastructure investment in Africa. It st...
Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries rely heavily on donor assistance and international borrowing. Th...
In Sub-Saharan Africa, like many other third world and former Soviet bloc countries, economic develo...
The need for infrastructure finance in Africa is tremendous. A 2009 report by the World Bank suggest...