{"id":22031,"date":"2022-04-29T15:44:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/?p=22031"},"modified":"2022-04-29T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:44:55","slug":"africa-faces-infrastructure-financing-gap-of-108bn-annually-adesina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2022\/04\/29\/africa-faces-infrastructure-financing-gap-of-108bn-annually-adesina\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa faces infrastructure financing gap of $108bn annually \u2013 Adesina"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\" aria-label=\"Content\">\n<p class=\"entry-title\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2022\/01\/14\/au-afreximbank-afcfta-inaugurate-pan-african-payment-settlement-systems\/\"><strong>African Development Bank (AfDB),<\/strong> <\/a>says that Africa is currently facing an infrastructure financing gap of between 68 billion dollars to 108 billion dollars annually.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>According to the Bank, this is spite of collective efforts to close the margin.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank said this in a statement obtained from its website by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said that President of the AfDB Group, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, said this when the Secretary of the United States Treasury, Janet Yellen hosted G-7 ministers and heads of multilateral development banks.<\/p>\n<p>Adesina said the Bank, which was the premier financier of infrastructure in Africa, had committed more than 44 billion dollars to infrastructure across the continent in the last six years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 44 billion dollars was channeled toward developing critical areas like transportation, energy, water, and sanitation on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI propose eight solutions to bridge Africa\u2019s infrastructure finance gap, which includes project preparation and mobilising institutional investors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther solutions are improving public financing for infrastructure, mobilising financing for green infrastructure, attracting the private sector, and dealing with risks, among others,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>The AfDB chief noted that institutional investors including pension funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds, and insurance companies held enough resources to scale up infrastructure financing from billions to trillions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Adesina said that collectively, the institutions with commercial banks held 103 trillion dollars of assets under management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis pool of capital is so vast that what is needed is only 0.03 per cent or up to 0.04 per cent to bridge the infrastructure financing gap for Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultilateral development banks should take early-stage investment risks in the project development phase, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He called on governments to focus more on attracting the private sector to infrastructure financing.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, governments must improve the policy, legal, and regulatory environment to support Public Private Partnership (PPP) investments in infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Bank\u2019s board had also approved a new PPP framework for financing infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Development Bank (AfDB), says that Africa is currently facing an infrastructure financing gap of between 68 billion dollars to 108 billion dollars annually. 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