Cross-border risk mitigation in Africa

In: Información comercial española: revista de economía ; ICE, Issue 914

Abstract

Multilateral institutions have been critical to catalyzing financing and mitigating risk in the developing world. They have been successful in creating new platforms designed to accomplish both objectives, but investors, traders, and lenders continue to perceive high degrees of risk in developing countries. Africa's multilateral institutions have been at the forefront of this effort and are in the process of creating new approaches to risk mitigation, including by pooling their resources.