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Digitisation in Africa: Channelling Funding to SMEs
Could innovation emerge from near destruction? Would the digitisation that led to the global financial crisis preclude SMEs from obtaining the finance they needed to continue playing the crucial role...
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Financing and supporting SMEs, the example of Vatel Madagascar
This article was published in Jeune Afrique in December 2019.
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Why are there so few unicorns in Africa and what are the key factors for success to help them emerge?
VC-backed African companies have just completed their first life cycle. The prospect of Africa generating unicorns is optimistic but achievable: it offers giant underserved markets, its companies and...
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The need for corporate human rights risk management in fragile contexts
Companies that operate in or are connected to fragile contexts – and the financiers that back tem- need to have a strong understanding of the risks to people that those companies’ operations may pose....
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Integrating African ports into international commercial flows: strengths and weaknesses
Increased containerisation of trade, changing infrastructure and more and more mammoth projects... for the past 20 years, African ports have enjoyed huge momentum. But the obstacles hampering developm...
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Africa: on the cusp of an innovation revolution
While emerging economies have been driving global growth over the last ten years, the gap vis-à-vis developed economies is still very substantial. Skill gaps in particular severely constrain economic...
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A few lessons from the DFID impact fund experience
While poor people in developing countries are more than willing to pay for basic goods and services, the existing private sector solutions in place so far do not allow them to meet such needs effectiv...
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The point of view of an impact investor - redefining the concepts of risk and retour
The notion of a trade-off between financial, social and environmental returns has dominated the impact investing debateuptonow.
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Acting sustainably to promote African small business: The challenge facing mission investors
Africa is the new frontier for private equity, yet the region is having trouble channelling the corresponding financial flows to its woefully underfunded small businesses. The continent cannot adequat...
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