Southern Africa: The Development Bank of Southern Africa and Financial Oppression

10 April 2014
analysis

The bank is touted as being a good potential host of the proposed BRICS bank. But its record so far suggests otherwise. A lack of representativeness, dubious appointments and investments, incompetence and a tendency towards privatisation have left many questioning whether the bank even fulfills its own mandate in the region

The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is a development finance institution based between Johannesburg and Pretoria in Midrand.

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