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Plenty of Room to Grow: Solutions to Put Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises on a Path to Prosperity

5/11/2018/Mastercard James Anderson When Mastercard made a commitment to bring affordable financial access to 500 million people by 2020 and 40 million micro merchants by 2021, many more promises came with it. In my role, the biggest of those promises is to uncover the systemic causes of financial inclusion among […]

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Announces $132 Billion CAPEX Program, Integrated Gas Strategy and an Increase in Oil Production

Company’s historic gas strategy will enable the UAE to become gas self-sufficient, with the potential to become a net gas exporter Oil production capacity to increase to 4mmbpd by end of 2020 and 5mmbpd by 2030 ADNOC to sustain LNG production to 2040 Discovery of 1 billion barrels of oil […]

Africa Investment Forum: All Set to Tilt the Tide of Investments into Africa

November 5, 2018/AfDB The Africa Investment Forum kicked off on Monday with a media briefing in the South African capital. The game changing event, aimed at attracting multi-billion-dollar deals across the continent, is set to usher in a new era for Africa’s investment landscape.  Regional and global investors and institutional […]