August 2016

LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa’s economies have shown impressive growth since the global financial crisis, outperforming the global average by 200 basis points. A critical underpin to this growth has been the flow of foreign capital from private sources into the continent’s leading economies. In no other sector is this as prevalent as infrastructure. Infrastructure development in Africa has lagged behind population growth over the past fifty years, and governments have begun…