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India has become the latest emerging market to use its sovereign wealth fund to move into the infrastructure arena. Managing director Sujoy Bose tells GlobalMarkets that investors could make a return as high as 18% but investors still fret over bureaucracy
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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 -
As part of a debt restructuring, Barbados has included a natural disaster clause — something its prime minister Mia Mottley hopes will be adopted by other vulnerable nations
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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
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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
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The National Bank of Ukraine is embroiled in around 600 lawsuits over the nationalisation of Privatbank against its former owner Ihor Kolomoisky. The governor of the NBU tells GlobalMarkets that if Kolomoisky wins, it would cross a red line for the IMF’s continued involvement with the country
