Big risk, big profit

Headline: Big risk, big profit Source: Euromoney Date: September 2000 Author: Chris Cockerill War, famine, AIDS, corruption: the news out of Africa is always bad. Yet a handful of international banks and investors say that their African operations are hugely profitable and the rest of the world is overlooking wonderful opportunities. A number of sub-Saharan […]

Headline: Big risk, big profit
Source: Euromoney
Date: September 2000
Author: Chris Cockerill

War, famine, AIDS, corruption: the news out of Africa is always bad. Yet a handful of international banks and investors say that their African operations are hugely profitable and the rest of the world is overlooking wonderful opportunities. A number of sub-Saharan countries are throwing off their reputations for economic mismanagement, liberalizing their markets and promoting the private sector. Chris Cockerill reports

The tarnished leaders of sub-Saharan Africa face huge challenges in marketing the region’s potential to international investors.






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