Central banks have 'track record' to manage new African SWFs, says World Bank expert

Ekaterina Gratcheva points to institutional history at central banks

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Basel, Switzerland

Central banks have key advantages that make them the right type of institution to manage Africa's new sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), according to a presentation by a World Bank expert at a forum of the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI), which reconvened in Basel this weekend after a 10-year hiatus.

Central bank governors from the 14 member countries met to discuss 'Leveraging sovereign wealth funds as a tool for economic stabilisation'. They

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