East African currency pressures trigger memories of Asian crisis for power sector developers


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Issue 213 - 16 Jul 2011 | 7 minute read

Recent pressure on the Kenyan, Tanzanian and Ugandan shillings poses problems for power developers and others operating in East Africa’s fast-growing economies, with echoes of the late 1990s events in Asia that undermined that region’s burgeoning IPP sector, writes Kevin Godier with Jon Marks

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