When the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) issued regulations in 2015 that encouraged nonbanks to issue e-money, it set the stage for a digital transformation in Côte d’Ivoire. Between 2014…

Rising migration and its linkages to human, socio-economic and political development has for a number of years been a prominent theme on the international agenda. As a result, remittances have…

Plugging the gap from above Africa is uniquely placed to trade with growing markets in the East, established markets in the West, and domestic markets on her own continent. In order to benefit from…

In the first blog for Making Finance Work for Africa, Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) discusses how African economies could benefit from adopting the…

According to the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA)[1] 2017 annual report, Africa’s annual infrastructure financing need is estimated at between USD 130 and USD 170  billion, with a deficit…

This blog was originally published on the CGAP website. In 2008, two years after M-Pesa was launched in Kenya, mobile money was introduced in Côte d’Ivoire. Since then, all three of the country’s…

Infrastructure is one of the most important drivers of economic growth and reaps numerous socioeconomic benefits. In 2018, a report published by the Boston Consulting Group and Africa Finance…