PPPs are increasingly promoted as a way to finance development projects and as a new way to entice the private sector to finance public projects. Following the FFD conference in Addis Ababa in 2015, there has been an increased urgency by many African g …

A growing body of evidence suggests that learning and cooperation among developing nations is increasing in both frequency and complexity. The evidence suggests that their cooperation is expanding to include not only economic cooperation but now encomp …

There are various ways and sources from which a country can mobilize resources to finance its development. These sources of funds can be domestic or external. The major sources of external funding are multilateral and bilateral debts. Countries can als …

After the global financial and economic crisis of 2008, there has been a substantial increase in sovereign bond issuance in Sub Saharan Africa. The total value of bonds issued increased by over 620% from $1 billion in 2011 to $6.2 billion in 2014. Stea …

“In total it is estimated that Africa has lost an estimated US$528.9 billion between 2003 and 2012. This amount is one and half times more than the official development assistance of US$348.2 billion that the continent has received during the same peri …

“The Africa rising narrative will benefit from improved Official Development Assistance (ODA) hence will call upon the donor countries to ensure that they increase their ODA as it directly works towards poverty eradication. ODA should be used to improv …

Following the 2015 report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, chaired by the former South African President Thabo Mbeki, there has been much greater awareness across Africa of the magnitude of illicit financial flows and the …

“Donors should be transparent and predictable in their aid disbursements as such predictability and transparency will assist in making sure those resources whether from aid or other sources are used to achieve the people’s aspiration as articulated in …