…In these trades, companies pay an investment bank to buy shares in the market over several months, but immediately receive a pile of stock that the bank has borrowed from other investors, making it look…

…At a public event last weekend, German finance minister Christian Lindner was asked why he was ending one of the government’s most popular policies…

…types of property investment. Chris Sykes, technical director at mortgage broker Private Finance , says more are turning away from the “broken” market for traditional single…

…as smallholder farms. It is organisations with enough formal structure to raise finance for investment, and sufficient managerial competence to reap the productivity gains from…

…As a sector, its share of GDP almost halved from a peak of 13 per cent in 2007 to 7 per cent in 2021, according to the World Bank ….

…Amoako built a career at the World Bank in the 1970s and became head of the UN Economic Commission for Africa — two institutions he believed could help realise Nkrumah’s vision….

…On the day of Shinzo Abe’s assassination in early July, Akinwumi Adesina, the president of African Development Bank , mourned the death of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister by calling him “a great friend…

…A white paper by the African Finance Corporation, the private-sector unit of the World Bank , notes that Africa contributes less than 4 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions….

…This month, Tunisia hosts the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, led by the government of Japan and co-hosted by the World Bank and the African Union Commission….

…Equity Bank , another top Kenyan lender, snapped up BCDC, DRC’s second-largest bank , two years ago….