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Blog Post
March 27, 2024
After an almost two-year lull, sub-Saharan African issuers are clawing their way back into international markets. In close succession, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, and Kenya issued $4.85 billion worth of Eurobonds in the first quarter of 2024. The bond offerings were as much as six times oversubscribed, in...
Blog Post
March 21, 2024
CGD's Gyude Moore speaks with Nick O’Donohoe from British International Investment and Frank Aswani from the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance about balancing local and international focus, the impact of a "funding winter," and how the public and private sectors can fill the financing gap for bu...
Blog Post
March 11, 2024
The African Development Bank has been a prime mover in advancing a new form of capital for the multilateral development banks, called hybrid capital. If there is another item on the MDB reform agenda that is more of a win-win proposition than hybrid capital, we are not aware of it.