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World Bank‑IMF Spring Meetings: Investors Call for Priority Investor Status to De‑risk & Scale Allocations to African NDCs

GEMs3.0 Media2025-04-29T20:35:54+00:00

African NDC‑Aligned Green Industrial Infrastructure as a Globally Competitive Investable Asset Class

Executive Summary

During the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings, investors advocated for the creation of Priority Investor Status (PIS), a proven framework designed to de‑risk and scale the mobilization of institutional capital for Africa’s NDC‑aligned green industrial infrastructure and SDG‑aligned investments. PIS would provide institutional investors with essential protections, transparency,...

Time to reprice African debt

GEMs3.0 Media2025-04-10T09:05:27+00:00

Countries face high costs in managing their foreign liabilities. Initiatives to mitigate the situation, such as the new continental rating agency, have recently emerged. External debt servicing will cost African countries US$89 billion in 2025, according to estimates by the G20. South Africa, which holds the presidency of the Group this year, established a committee of experts in early March...

To get more capital, Africa needs more data

GEMs3.0 Media2024-12-03T09:47:01+00:00

Poor data and small capital markets make it hard to gauge risks and returns The concept of risk is completely invented to ensure that investment doesn’t come to Africa,” Gagan Gupta told an audience of investors and entrepreneurs earlier this year, to resounding applause. Mr Gupta, whose firm works on logistics and utilities across Africa, is optimistic about the continent and scathing...

How development banks are failing to attract enough private money to climate fight

GEMs3.0 Media2024-11-26T12:48:52+00:00

As officials from around the world strive this week to reach a deal on funding for poorer countries to tackle climate change, investment manager Rob Drijkoningen is the sort of person they're hoping will help get them there. Drijkoningen is head of emerging market debt at U.S. asset manager Neuberger Berman, which holds $27 billion in sovereign and corporate debt from...

Natural Capital on African Governments’ Balance Sheets initiative introduced at COP16

GEMs3.0 Media2024-11-04T16:56:57+00:00

The Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) Africa Council has unveiled a new initiative aimed at making natural assets a core component of national balance sheets. The Natural Capital on African Governments’ Balance Sheets initiative is an institutional investor-public partnership led by the SMI Africa Council, which brings together institutional, technology and legal partners such as the African Union Commission, Africa Investor Group,...