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Africa: To Finance Africa at Scale, Build Its Capital Markets at Home
AllAfrica · 13 Oct 2026
[RootsToFoods Capital Series] In a RootsToFoods Capital Series interview, Wasim Tahir, Senior Advisor at ODI Global and former director at British International Investment, explains how development finance actually moves private capital into emerging markets, and why the lasting answer lies in deep domestic capital markets and national development banks.
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