Tag Africa Economic Development

Confidence before capital: What Tanzania’s clean cooking strategy teaches Africa about building investable markets

By Publicist East Africa Investors rarely fear bad markets; they fear uncertain ones. That distinction explains far more about investment patterns across Africa than many policy debates acknowledge.  Across much of the continent, the greatest constraint is rarely the absence…

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The carbon market gamble: Africa’s new climate economy or a new extraction model?

Across global climate finance circles, carbon has become a currency of urgency, traded, priced, verified, and bundled into corporate sustainability strategies worth billions. But in Africa, where vast forests, wetlands, and grasslands are now being measured as carbon sinks, a…

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