Economy

11Jun

African Institutional Investors Release Groundbreaking COVID-19 Response And Agenda 2063 Investment Report

Cornwall, Addis Ababa, Johannesburg, Cairo, Paris, Washington Africa investor (Ai) today announced and presented The Investable Africa We Want Report, in support of Agenda 2063 and Africa’s response to COVID-19, during The G7-Africa investor Summit, held in association with the G7’s institutional Investor Leaders Network (ILN). African sovereign...
25May

Ai AfricaPLC Releases AfCFTA E-Trade Digitalization Report

Ai AfricaPLC announced and presented today, its Roadmap Report on globalizing Africa eTrade in support of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), during the Ai African Electronic Trade Leaders Roundtable on Improving African Buyer Information and eTrade Documentation, in support of the African Continental Free...
13Aug

DHL’s Saloodo! partners AfricaPLC to grow intra-African and global trade

Saloodo! will be the first logistics partner to provide digital road freight solutions on the AfricaPLC e-trade marketplace

AfricaPLC assists to digitize African SMEs, so they can participate in and support the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) The partnership expects to expand...
12Aug

African Asset Owners Co-investment Partnerships 27 August, 2020

Africa investor (Ai) partners Bloomberg African Asset Owner Series

Africa investor (Ai) partners Bloomberg and The Continental Business Network (CBN) on first ever African Asset Owner Series on Co-investment Partnerships. This inaugural event in the series, will feature two panels focused on the African Union's...
01Aug

Ai Supports African Infrastructure Investment Trusts Initiative

A defined solution to the infrastructure financing gap – Infrastructure Investment Trusts (IIT)

Africa investor (Ai) partners African Capital Market leaders and the Global Listed Infrastructure Organisation (GLIO) on Africa's first Infrastructure Investment Trusts (IIT) initiative - as recommended in the recent
30Jul

China’s Infrastructure-Heavy Model for African Growth Is Failing

In Ethiopia and Kenya, the attractive illusion of the “China model” has had grave financial consequences.

The strategy of “infrastructure-led growth” (growth, not economic and social development) seems to be showing its limits in Africa, where China has largely been instrumental in promoting it. This...