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Podcast: Standard Bank SA
Episode: The Weekly Shyft: Episode 14
Description: Itβs September 2021, and this is the fourteenth Audio Episode of βThe Shyft Liftβ, the regular news digest of the App for the globally-minded, based in South Africa.
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa have budgeted to spend about $340 billion in 2021. By contrast, household spending will be closer to $1.3 trillion, nearly four times as much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwfsyJAqXaM
Between 2008 and 2019 the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China lent $462 billion to other countries β not far off the $467 billion lent by the World Bank over the same period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...