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UNCTAD: Africa Rising
Africa needs investment to advance sustainable development and see the continent prosper. James Zhan, Astrit Sulstarova and Mathabo le Roux argue that the nature and volume of foreign investment flows into the continent over the past fifteen years show Africa
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African Governments Invest in Skills in Sciences, Engineering, and Technology
President Macky Sall of Senegal launches a new Regional Scholarship and Innovative Fund in Johannesburg, South Africa, in June 2015. $5 million committed by African governments and African Business Champions for Science to award 10,000 PhDs scholarships over ten years.
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The Future Arrives in the Gulf as the Future Cities Show Season Kicks Off
The region is expected to see the launch of new, futuristic technologies at the Future Cities Show, to be held from April 9-11, 2018, that will change the way people live and work in urban environment. The second edition of
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MiFID II: The Impact on Finance Sector Comms
MiFID II is a change to the regulations informing the finance sector’s conduct and aims to improve transparency and safety in the financial markets. That means that, by January 2018, affected finance businesses must be fully compliant, or face fines
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World Bank: Infrastructure Financing Options – Bankable Projects for Private Investors
Strategic investment funds have emerged as a way of addressing gaps in the infrastructure investment lifecycle. These funds are wholly or partially owned by governments or other public institutions, and are designed to mobilise private investment to key economic sectors.
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Kristalina Georgieva
The little blue Audi TT with its stick shift had to be sacrificed to a small electric VW: “I need to go electric. We all have this responsibility.” The commute may be slightly less exciting, World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva
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Banco Nacional de Angola: Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing
January 12, 2016, Luanda, Angola: The National Bank of Angola (BNA) today announced that it is implementing a series of actions to strengthen anti-money -laundering (AML) compliance and combat the financing of terrorism (FT) in the Angolan financial system. Responding
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British Airways: Bring On the Competition
How to manage an apparent paradox – and make a profit while doing so. It is a challenge well suited to British Airways CEO Alex Cruz, the eminently likable Spaniard who transformed Vueling from a struggling low-cost carrier into a
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Evan Harvey, Nasdaq: Stock Exchanges – An Engine for Sustainable Development
The modern stock exchange is a hybrid institution: listing venue, market steward, investment and regulatory liaison, product and service creator, and so on. To further complicate matters, many stock exchanges are now public companies themselves, listed on their own markets
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EFG Asset Management: Not Constrained by Benchmarks
A boutique with backing: New Capital is the funds arm of EFG Asset Management (EFGAM), the investment division of global private banking group EFG International which has a total of CHF144.5bn in assets under management. Whilst New Capital enjoys the
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