Frontier market

Fund managers are keeping one eye on the global market twitches and another on some of Africa’s rockier political systems as they try to assess news risk in 2008. For the last five years, Africa has an enjoyed a favoured but frontier market status.

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China, South Africa, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia, Tanzania, Sudan, Al Waleed bin Talall, Ghanaian, Kofi Bucknor, United States, Britain, Nigeria, Kenya

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