Abidjan’s bridges and infrastructure have been under severe strain following Côte d’Ivoire’s decade-long civil conflict, and the city’s acute traffic problems threatened to hinder recovery. The new Henri Konan Bedié toll bridge, which consists of two three-lane carriageways and cuts the journey time between two major districts of Abidjan from one hour to 15 minutes, was designed to put Abidjan back on the path to prosperity and ease citizens’ lives.

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.

Definitions of political risk terms vary among political risk providers, such as arbitration, coinsurance, expropriation, mediation, tenor and more. For more information on each provider's definition of terms, consult the provider's website.

The latest MDB climate finance figures are detailed in the 2017 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks’ Climate Finance, combining data from the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Investment Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank Group and the World Bank Group (World Bank, IFC and MIGA).

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.