[This is the version of this document from 11 April 2005.]
The Pan African Parliament;1.BEARING IN MIND the important role of investment and financing institutions in stimulating economic growth, development and poverty reduction;2.AWARE that such vehicles of economic growth are, by and large, non-existent in the continent’s rural economies;3.APPRECIATING the need to establish such institutions to foster rapid economic growth in the continent’s rural areas;THEREFORE RECOMMENDS that the African Union, in conjuction with the Private Sector, Pan-African Investment and Financing institutions, ecourages new and existing investment and financing institutions to focus on the continent’s rural economies.