{"id":143565,"date":"2025-11-19T20:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/143565\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:47:12","slug":"africa-needs-more-green-financing-to-unlock-growth-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/143565\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa needs more green financing to unlock growth: report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Infrastructure deficits, climate change, and debt sustainability challenges are holding Africa back from unlocking its growth potential, S&amp;P Global said in a new report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The continent is poised to play an important role in the energy transition with its natural resources, young population, and expanding middle class. But to unlock this potential Africa needs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/en\/research-insights\/special-reports\/look-forward\/unlocking-africa\/unlocking-africa-economic-potential-long-term-growth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:more green financing, stronger capital markets, and better regional integration;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">more green financing, stronger capital markets, and better regional integration<\/a>, the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Productivity growth in Angola, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia has slowed over the last decade, S&amp;P noted, as infrastructure development and maintenance have not kept up with the needs of expanding populations. The increased demand for energy transition minerals could boost productivity growth in resource-rich economies while others need government reforms that improve the business environment and draw investment, it said.<\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"A chart showing the average annualized real GDP growth for select African countries, pre-pandemic, and then post-pandemic.\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"927\" width=\"800\" class=\"yf-1gfnohs loader\"\/> A chart showing the average annualized real GDP growth for select African countries, pre-pandemic, and then post-pandemic.      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/preeti-jha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preeti Jha;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preeti Jha<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Infrastructure deficits, climate change, and debt sustainability challenges are holding Africa back from unlocking its growth potential, S&amp;P&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,390,219,17383,96924,91370,111,139,69,96922,96923],"class_list":["post-143565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-climate-change","tag-economy","tag-energy-transition","tag-growth-potential","tag-natural-resources","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-productivity-growth","tag-sustainability-challenges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}