A Rescue Is Only a Set of Promises
Thames Water’s rescue is less a financial story than a question about promises: who makes them, to whom, and who can hold them to account.
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Current Developments In Business, Leadership, Governance and Institutions Examined Through The Lens Of WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? WHY? HOW? AND SO WHAT?
The Company Changed. The Relationship Didn’t.
The new owner sees an acquisition. The community sees continuity. In oil and gas, that gap can become expensive.
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Africa Chooses. The Choice Is Africa.
In Abuja this year, at a national summit convened specifically to address it, Nigeria’s president told an audience of cocoa producers and processors that the country would “grind…
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The Refinery Was Never the Hard Part
Two things are true about Dangote’s refining ambitions right now, and they are usually reported as two separate stories. In Nigeria, the Lagos refinery — already Africa’s largest…
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The Case Doesn’t Close When the Round Does
Over the past year, Nigeria's distributed-energy sector has absorbed an unusual concentration of institutional capital in a short window. A combined $83.2 million from IFC and Norfund landed…
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