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Published since 2009, Private Sector & Development (PS&D) is a half-yearly magazine that aims to get a better grasp of the mechanisms through which the private sector can contribute to the development of southern countries. In each issue, PS&D compares the views of authors in different fields: researchers, private sector’s professionals, development institutions or civil society. The idea of the Private Sector & Development magazine is to share know-how and best practices and boost sustainable development by encouraging private investment. The magazine spotlights the experience of Proparco and its private-sector partners.
For developing countries, where economic activity is often based on a handful of sectors of activity, tourism provides real potential for diversification and valuable foreign currency exchange. It can be a source of employment as well as a vehicle of economic and social progress.
It is imperative to develop a low-carbon economy in order to meet two challenges that our societies face: how to guarantee an energy supply (under threat from the increasing scarcity of oil resources), and how to meet the climate challenge.
This fifth issue of the magazine Private Sector & Development makes a comprehensive review of developments (recent and future) on Africa’s financial markets. It also highlights their utility and their impacts on African economies.
This issue of Secteur Privé & Développement looks at the question of mobile phone sector: in most South countries, the mobile phone sector has developed – under the impetus and supervision of public regulatory authorities – via the private sector.
The overarching virtue of microfinance is that in recent years it has managed to demonstrate that it is not only possible and necessary to implement services tailored to the poorest – it can also be profitable. This is the subject of the 3rd issue of Secteur Privé & Développement.
