The World Bank’s private sector arm IFC only makes a small fraction of its investments in Africa, compared to European aid-financed risk capital funds.

European funds invest every fourth dollar in Africa, while the Bank invests only one in ten dollars in the region, shows a report obtained by Development Today.

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