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Diaspora Bonds

The investment possibilities of the money the African Diaspora sends to their own countries.

Developing countries need all kinds of facilities that most of them cannot afford, facilities that meet absolutely basic human needs: roads, bridges, railways, water supplies, power, sewerage, street lighting.

Many of them have little of the cash it needs to get big public investment programmes started. Overseas aid can help, of course, and so can official borrowing from the big international institutions such as the World Bank.

But there鈥檚 another pool of potential investment money that has so far been used mainly informally and only in very limited circumstances.

Peter Day reports how Africans are waking up to the investment possibilities of the money the Diaspora sends back to their own countries.

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28 minutes

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Sun 25 Mar 2012 14:32GMT

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