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in healthcare – and their borrowing capacity from multilateral development institutions such as the OPEC Fund. Another issue is the lack of reliable and accurate data that hinders informed and effective policy-making needed to attract outside partners. Implementing the specifics of individual projects often brings further challenges. “At concept level, the technical and financial capacity for preparing bankable healthcare projects for external funding is less in Africa compared to other continents,” says Shams. “Take technical documents, for example feasibility studies, due
Sub-Saharan Africa spends only slightly more than 5% of GDP on healthcare
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