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    Japan Boosts AfDB Lending for SMEs

    By Eliza Villarino // 18 October 2011

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    Japan has extended around $108 million to the African Development Bank in support of the latter’s projects benefiting small and medium-sized enterprises and the rest of the private sector in Africa.

    The concessional loan fulfills Japan’s commitment at the G-8 Gleneagles summit to provide $1 billion to Africa through AfDB.

    Read more development aid news online, and subscribe to The Development Newswire to receive top international development headlines from the world’s leading donors, news sources and opinion leaders — emailed to you FREE every business day.

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