Private equity funds face significant challenges as they seek to attract capital for investments into emerging and frontier markets. Top-down investors may be uneasy with the macro environments of certain markets due to concerns about government stability, civil unrest, and fragile regulatory frameworks.

The Government of Senegal awarded SENAC S.A. the concession to design, build, finance, and operate the expansion of the existing Dakar toll road. This expansion will connect central Dakar to the new international airport as well as to other important economic zones of the country, spurring economic growth, employment, and new opportunities that contribute to poverty reduction by facilitating transport between key infrastructure and outlying areas with the capital city.

In Kenya, where only 25 percent of the population has access to electricity, the World Bank Group is supporting the government’s Least Cost Power Development Plan, which calls for an increase in the number of independent power producers (IPPs) and a more diversified energy mix.

In Kenya, where only 25 percent of the population has access to electricity, the World Bank Group is supporting the government’s Least Cost Power Development Plan, which calls for an increase in the number of independent power producers (IPPs) and a more diversified energy mix.

Private equity funds face significant challenges as they seek to attract capital for investments into emerging and frontier markets. Top-down investors may be uneasy with the macro environments of certain markets due to concerns about government stability, civil unrest, and fragile regulatory frameworks.

Access to power is essential to ending poverty. More than 1.3 billion people are still without access to electricity worldwide and almost all of them live in developing countries. Without access to energy services, the poor are deprived of the most basic opportunities needed to improve their standard of living.