在非洲国家，无论由衷与否，几乎所有政府都将经济现代化奉为繁荣的基石和自身执政效率的衡量标准而推崇备至。 许多国家夸耀自身金融基础设施的现代化，这种现代化的金融基础设施是以一整套法律、法规、会计、征信、支付和结算系统为基础建立的。
Across Africa, almost all governments praise – some honestly, some not – economic modernization as the cornerstone of prosperity and the yardstick by which their effectiveness should be measured. Many boast of the modernity of the financial infrastructure of their economies, which is based on an entire set of legal, regulatory, accounting, credit reporting, and payment and settlement systems.