Africa: To Finance Africa at Scale, Build Its Capital Markets at Home
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.
Tahir spent six years as a director at British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution, where he developed the institution’s mobilization strategy for bringing private capital into emerging markets.
Ovidiu Bujorean, chief executive officer of OviBees Ventures, spoke with Wasim Tahir, Senior Advisor at ODI Global and Research Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Development, for the third conversation of Wave 2 of the RootsToFoods Capital Series.
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