Special Report

African Development

Download our report:

  • Discover what's driving Africa's growth
  • Learn how trade and infrastructure build development
  • Understand how innovation and governance shape the future
Foreign aid

Africa must deal with a world of shrinking aid

Despite the sweeping cuts to financial assistance there has been surprisingly little protest from the continent’s nations

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Capital markets

African public lenders are accessing markets to diversify their funding

The difficulty for these financial institutions is how far they can issue these debts at scale

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Foreign aid

Development finance could fill the gaps left by cuts in aid programmes

DFIs can provide an essential source of financing for businesses shut out by private capital in their home countries

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Nuclear energy

Africa’s energy inequality: the challenge of bringing affordable, reliable access

Overhauling ageing power grids, low carbon systems and nuclear are some of the options African countries are adopting

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African economy

Japan eyes low-cost debt to mitigate Africa blow from aid cuts

There is scope for Tokyo to do more through public loans without increasing spending

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Online learning

Sowing the seeds of education through interactive learning

Malawi has handed out adaptive teaching tablets to children across the country to teach basic literacy and numeracy

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