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Private Sector & Development #43 - European development finance institutions: strategic players in changing ti...
This issue highlights the levers for action of European development finance institutions, who invest over €12 billion a year in the private sector in emerging countries. This issue was prepared in col...
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Private Sector & Development #42 - Access to water and sanitation: the private sector at the source
This magazine is dedicated to the role of private sector in the access to water and sanitation. A major issue at a time when more than 2.2 billion people worldwide still do not have access to safe dri...
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Private Sector & Development #41 - Acting in fragile contexts: financing, partnerships, innovation
This edition of the Private Sector & Development magazine is devoted to fragile contexts. The multiple challenges facing fragile countries converge, compounding and feeding off each other. In these co...
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Private Sector & Development #40 - Sustainable cities: how private sector players are gearing up
By 2050, almost 70% of the population of developing countries will be living in cities. Deploying sustainable urban infrastructure and services is a massive challenge.
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Private Sector & Development #39 - Food security: the contribution of the private sector
To mark World Food Day on 16th October 2023, the 39th issue was devoted to food security. It provides a collective reflection on the subject and highlights the need to get the private sector more invo...
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Private Sector & Development #38 - Climate change adaptation: how the private sector is scaling up
To mark COP27 held in November 2022, the 38th issue of Private Sector & Development magazine is dedicated to climate change adaptation and presents the drivers for action of Development Finance Instit...
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Private Sector & Development #37 - Faced with the crisis, what prospects for the private sector?
The 37th edition of Private Sector & Development magazine, produced with the association EDFI, gives a voice to European development finance institutions and presents their responses to the crisis lin...
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Private Sector & Development #36 - Technical assistance: opening up new horizons
The 36th edition of Private Sector & Development magazine is devoted to technical assistance, an instrument at the service of development commonly used by all actors (international organizations, dono...
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Special issue - New Africa-France Summit: the new entrepreneurship dynamics in Africa
To mark the New Africa-France Summit in Montpellier organized in October 2021 which aimed to renew connections with Africa, this special issue of Private Sector & Development magazine explored the new...
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Private Sector & Development #35 - Preserving biodiversity: the private sector in action
To mark the COP 15 of 2021, the 35th edition of Private Sector & Development imagines the role of the private sector in financing biodiversity and proposes steps to better involve businesses in the re...
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Special issue - Public development banks tackling global challenges
This special issue, published in collaboration with the EDFI association on the occasion of the first Finance in common world summit of November 2020, aims to highlight the increasingly important role...
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Private Sector & Development #34 - Embracing the challenges of sustainable industrial development
Essential to economic development, the industrial sector is also a source of controversy (environmental impact, creation of decent jobs, etc.). The 34th issue of Private Sector & Development is dedica...
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Private Sector & Development #33 - Harnessing the private sector to reduce gender inequality
Despite increased awareness since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and the progress made, women worldwide still face a multitude of inequalities. The 33rd Private Sector & Development focuses o...
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Private Sector & Development #32 - SME finance in Africa: what's new?
10 years after having dedicated its first issue to the financing and support of SMEs in Africa, this Private Sector & Development magazine takes another in-depth look into this major challenge for the...
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Private Sector & Development #31 - Scaling up the development impact of agro-industry
This issue of Private Sector & Development aims to demonstrate that the agro-industry, even if it sometimes brings up “negative externalities affecting the environment and small producers”, can be a m...
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Private Sector & Development #30 - Corporate governance: a driver for growth
The 30th Private Sector & Development magazine focuses on the issues and challenges of a key topic for business growth: governance. Good governance practices play a fundamental role in ensuring the su...
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Special issue - The hotel and tourism industries in Africa: a booming market
The tourism and hotel industry, which is often vaunted for its capacity to create jobs and boost regional economic activity in general, has been enjoying a boom in Africa for a few years now.
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Private Sector & Development #29 - Financing start-ups to build tomorrow's african economies
This issue of Private Sector & Development magazine is devoted to venture capital and the world of start-ups in Africa. It looks at a growing sector that set a new investment record in 2017.
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Private Sector & Development #28 - Improving the quality and accessibility of african medicine
Providing access to quality medicines still poses a number of challenges in Africa. This 28th issue of Private Sector & Development magazine tackles attempts to come up with a few pointers and solutio...
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Special issue - Private sector and digital innovation: catalyts for development
This special issue of Private Sector & Development magazine, published to mark Proparco’s 40th anniversary, focuses on how digital technology can help to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals...
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Private Sector & Development #27 - Vulnerabilities and crises: what role for companies?
Over two billion people throughout the world are currently living in countries in which development is being stymied by situations that are rife with conflict and violence. The growing number of both...
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