Africa. By overcoming the difficulties in obtaining trade finance, African SMEs will be able to expand into foreign markets … involved with their international transactions) is structured trade and commodity finance. In trading with China, African SMEs … market (which is the focus of this study). China Construction Bank (Johannesburg branch), through their association with Rand …

scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …