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Promoting African digital multinationals for a more inclusive post-pandemic future

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This paper advances policies for promoting the intraregional and international investment prospects of African digital multinationals in the post-pandemic era. Based on the building blocks of organizational capabilities, funding access, digital infrastructure and regulation, it advocates for a more globally inclusive investment landscape in which African-born digital multinationals would no longer be a rarity. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 crisis and its amplification of humankind’s shared and digital future, policymakers and influential stakeholders at all levels are challenged to intensify the push for a more inclusive global digital economy.

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  • Kevin I. N. Ibeh, . "Promoting African digital multinationals for a more inclusive post-pandemic future," UNCTAD Transnational Corporations Journal, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
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