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According to a report by Bain & Company, quoted in a Reuters article:

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The study, “Financial Services in Africa: A Decade of Opportunities” reckons financial firms will make up 19 percent of Africa’s gross domestic product by 2020, compared with 11 percent in 2009.

H/T @AfricaResearch, whose blog you should check out.

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In Maurer, B., 2005. Finance. In J. Carrier, ed. A Handbook of Economic Anthropology.  Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 179&180.

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