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MADE IN AFRICA, FOR AFRICA

AFRICA 2014 | INTRODUCTION Though Africa has experienced impressive growth for well over a decade now, domestic markets and intraregional economic relations have remained constrained, with national economies driven primarily by mounting foreign demand for the continent’s natural resources and commodity exports.Today, however, things appear to be changing. For one thing, Africa is witnessing the emergence of a middle class.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

NAIROBI EXCHANGE LISTS OWN SHARES TO RAISE FUNDS FOR EXPANSION

CAPITAL MARKETS | AFRICAN EQUITY Initial public offerings on the Nairobi Securities Exchange have been few and far between in recent years.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

POWERING UP GROWTH

AFRICA 2014 | INFRASTRUCTURE From power plants and mining to tourism and railroads, new infrastructure projects are stimulating the growth of industries across sub-Saharan Africa.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

STOCK EXCHANGE TO SCRAP FOREIGN OWNERSHIP LIMIT

MILESTONES | TANZANIA Plans by Tanzania’s Capital Markets and Securities Authority to dispense with the 60% foreign ownership limit in stocks listed on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange could bring positive results in the short and medium term for Africa’s capital markets.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

UNLOCKING AFRICA’S RICHES

AFRICA 2014 | MINING Africa’s mining industry is on the verge of breaching limits historically imposed by political risk constraints.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

CAN GHANA AFFORD IMF CONDITIONS FOR LOAN?

GHANA The world’s second-largest producer of cocoa, is expected to ask the International Monetary Fund for help.

Country Report

MENDING EGYPT’S DAMAGED ECONOMY

COUNTRY REPORT | EGYPT Pressure is building on Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to deliver economic gains. Falling investment and a sharp drop in tourist arrivals have weakened growth over the past three years. But a rapid return to pre-2011 expansion levels appears unlikely.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MOROCCO: STABLE, AND WELL-SITUATED

FRONTIER MARKETS REPORT | MOROCCO Morocco boasts solid outward FDI, geopolitical stability and proximity to key markets, but corruption is commonplace.

Banking

ECONOMIC AFTERSHOCKS

DEAR READER Geopolitical instability seems to be everywhere these days, whether we look to North Africa and the Middle East or Eastern Europe, to Southern Asia or Southeast Asia, and it weighs on financial markets and policymakers worldwide.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Africa

MADE IN AFRICA, FOR AFRICA

NAIROBI EXCHANGE LISTS OWN SHARES TO RAISE FUNDS FOR EXPANSION

POWERING UP GROWTH

STOCK EXCHANGE TO SCRAP FOREIGN OWNERSHIP LIMIT

UNLOCKING AFRICA’S RICHES

CAN GHANA AFFORD IMF CONDITIONS FOR LOAN?

MENDING EGYPT’S DAMAGED ECONOMY

MOROCCO: STABLE, AND WELL-SITUATED

ECONOMIC AFTERSHOCKS

MALAWI: NEW PRESIDENT BLESSING IN DISGUISE FOR FOREIGN DONORS

NIGERIA: LIGHTING UP THE POWER SECTOR

RECORD KENYAN BOND WHETS APPETITE FOR AFRICAN DEBT