{
  "id": 14203142,
  "title": "Africa: To Finance Africa at Scale, Build Its Capital Markets at Home",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/africa-to-finance-africa-at-scale-build-its-capital-markets-at-home",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-13T12:46:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica",
    "slug": "allafrica",
    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202610130391.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Wasim Tahir, a Senior Advisor at ODI Global and former director at British International Investment, explains that development finance moves private capital into emerging markets by building domestic capital markets and national development banks. Tahir spent six years at BII, where they shifted from buy-and-hold to originate-to-share, a process he describes as largely cultural. BII lent for seven to ten years where commercial lenders provided four or five, and then sold the developed loans to other investors. Tahir also emphasizes the importance of blended finance, where concessional capital changes the risk-return profile of a deal, and mobilization strategies bring private investors into emerging markets, while frontier strategies bring DFIs into low-income and fragile states. To encourage private capital flow, Tahir suggests that DFIs engage actively with institutional investors, and national development banks, such as Nigeria's Development Bank of Nigeria and the UK's National Wealth Fund, can play a crucial role.",
  "summary": "[RootsToFoods Capital Series] In a RootsToFoods Capital Series interview, Wasim Tahir, Senior Advisor at ODI Global and former director at British International Investment, explains how development finance actually moves private capital into emerging markets, and why the lasting answer lies in deep domestic capital markets and national development banks.",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}