04.02.2016 - Falling commodity prices should not weaken SWF drive
The continuous fall in oil and commodity prices has given shivers to most of Africa’s policy makers in terms of revenue collections and this has led many to question the need of a Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) when revenues are low. The SWF case has long been anchored on the fact that African countries in the past decade had been receiving significant income flows from commodities and oil exports making the case for them to create a fund to save this surplus for future crisis situations, but since 2014 the oil and commodity prices have been falling which has reversed the gains witnessed earlier on...............................................Full Article: Source
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