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  • Geopolitical issues such as the migration crisis has heightened the need for the European Investment Bank to launch facilities such as Economic Resilience Initiative fund to help attract private capital into the troubled North African region
  • Low interest rates have pushed investors to invest in riskier credit, flooding emerging market funds and driving down borrowing costs and causing debt stocks to climb, economists and investors have told GlobalMarkets
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    Uruguay has become the first sovereign issuer to set out plans for a bond that takes a more comprehensive view of the ESG agenda rather than the classic green bond structure. A number of EM countries have told GlobalMarkets they are interested in issuing sustainability bonds, even as seasoned issuers have moved away from the product.
  • Bilateral investment from rising powers such as China, Russia and Saudi Arabia has been gratefully received by needy nations such as Pakistan but the inflow of new money threatens to make the IMF look less relevant just as the multilateral has acquired a new boss
  • Ghana’s minister of finance has called on global pension funds to help meet Africa’s vast infrastructure need, easing the funding burden which has seen several African countries load up on unsustainable levels of expensive dollar debt
  • The new African free trade zone that will remove tariffs on 90% of goods should stimulate growth on the continent, according to African financial leaders. But there are fears it could create winners and losers