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Osinbajo Attends First Africa Investment Forum in South Africa

November 7, 2018 Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, will depart Abuja today, to attend the Africa Investment Forum organised by the African Development Bank, scheduled to hold at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dubbed by organizers of the event as the “collective deal of the century for […]

Alibaba Pledges $200 Billion to Boost China’s Imports

November 6, 2018/Alizila Alibaba Group on Tuesday said it would use its e-commerce platforms to bring $200 billion worth of imported goods into China over the next five years to satisfy Chinese consumers’ growing demand for higher-quality goods from overseas. The plan, to be carried out from 2019 through 2023, […]

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 […]