Japan has invested more in project financing in Africa than China as Asian nations continue to strengthen their economic influence on the continent, according to Linklaters LLP. Japanese investors accounted for $3.5 billion of the $4.2 billion of project funds that Asian nations poured into Africa last year to improve roads, water and sanitation and […]
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US Government to Back American Investment into Fertile Ukrainian Agriculture Sector
American Overseas Private Investment Corporation is paving the way for a multi-million dollar investment into Ukrainian agriculture, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food. The US-government corporation is ready to invest up to USD 250 million per project. Ukrainian Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food Oleksiy Pavlenko said that the country needs […]
Political Will Key to Integration
Regional integration in Africa will only be a reality if the countries seeking to increase their trade and grow their economies adopt industrialisation in their economies, show political will and improve on the standards of their products to compete with the set standards needed to break into the European and other big markets. Britain, the […]
Opinion: Ensuring The World Bank’s Relevance
For decades, the World Bank stood alone in terms of size and influence in emerging market around the world— this is no longer the case. The world has changed considerably since the Bank first began to focus its lending and expertise on the developing world some 50 years ago. In the 1960’s, global capital markets […]
Are U.S. Allies Flocking to China’s New Bank?
In a surprise move, London announced Thursday that it will seek to join the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), sparking an angry response from the U.S. The (AIIB) was created by China last fall and officially rolled out with a signing ceremony in October 2014. At the original signing ceremony, 21 countries (including China) […]
The Geopolitical Importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: At Stake, A Liberal Economic Order
The return of geopolitics is all around us. Civil wars in the Middle East and Russian aggression in Ukraine properly dominate the headlines. But more quietly, a potentially more consequential strategic defeat looms for the United States: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may fail. Why should we care that some trade pact we have barely heard […]
BRICS Resolve to Ensure Food Security Solution by December 2015
BRICS members, including India and China, today resolved to ensure conclusion of negotiations for a permanent solution for public stock-holding of foodgrains under the WTO by December, 2015. “We reaffirmed our commitment to work together to negotiate and make all concerted efforts to agree and adopt a permanent solution to the issue of public stock-holding […]