Africa’s Top Civil Servants Build Capacity on Industry Policy

Dakar, Senegal, June 10, 2017//– The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) hosted senior civil servants from 20 African countries for a course on Industrial Policy in Africa aimed at strengthening their capacity in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating appropriate strategies to facilitate the structural transformation of the continent’s economies.

New IFC and Ecobank Facility to Finance SMEs in Africa

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, parent company of the Ecobank Group and leading pan-African full-service banking group, today announced the launch of a $110 million risk-sharing facility that will increase access to finance for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in fragile and conflict-affected states in West and […]