PARIS: Facing subdued growth at home, a growing number of Western investors are now looking to Africa’s “frontier markets” for high returns and hoping the continent’s budding exchanges can help them tap in.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts sub-Saharan Africa’s economy will expand by 5.1 percent this year and 5.8 percent in 2015—the highest growth outside Asia—despite the heavy economic toll from the Ebola epidemic.

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