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AADFI releases the Results of the 12th Peer Review of African DFIs

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The Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) has released the report of the 12th Peer Review and Rating of African DFIs based on AADFI Prudential Standards, Guidelines, and Rating System (PSGRS). The AADFI PSGRS is an assessment tool for African DFIs, focusing on governance, operation, financial management, and development Impact. It aims to help the […]

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Overview of Africa’s Financial Sector: Long-term finance and capital markets

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Expanding on the general overview of the financial sector in Africa, this second article focuses on the development of the capital markets and the recent initiatives to attract long-term capital to the continent. Capital markets in Africa are still in their infancy and mirror the economic development of the continent. However, the evolution over the last decade prior

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Africa’s shift to funding sustainable power in local currencies: The opportunity for ECAs

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Africa’s shift to funding sustainable power in local currencies: The opportunity for ECAs is Africa’s policy shift towards PPAs in local currencies an opportunity for ECAs to support the long-term sustainability of the energy sector? By Harald Hirschhofer, Senior Advisor at TCX , and Vivek Mittal, CEO of African Infrastructure Development Association.

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Public development banks driving gender equality: An overview of practices and measurement frameworks

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This publication was jointly prepared by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). The publication was led by Vanina Vincensini, UN Women with substantive contributions from Mar Merita Blat, Philippe Galland and Myriam Mesbah from AFD; and Vipul Bhagat, Anna Falth,

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Mapping 500+ Development Banks: Qualification Criteria, Stylized Facts, and Development Trends

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The present Second New Structural Economics (NSE) Development Financing Research Report was authored by a team of researchers from the NSE Development Financing research program and the Agence française de développement (AFD). The team is led by twoprincipal investigators—Jiajun XU, Executive Deputy Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, and Régis

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