If no action is taken, fragile countries will account for 80% of the world’s poverty by 2030. Faced with these challenges, the importance of the private sector’s role in boosting economic resilience, access to employment and essential services, is more and more widely recognised.

Guaranteeing equal access to healthy and nutritious food for every human being remains a major challenge. To mark World Food Day on October 16, the 39th issue of Proparco’s Private Sector & Development magazine is devoted to food security.

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 linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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 entrepreneurship dynamics in Africa.

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 played by DFIs and to address some of the major development issues.

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 on the role of the private sector in reducing gender inequalities. 

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 major driver for development.

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.

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 solutions for the future. 

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 natural and man-made crises makes the fragile countries a key focus of current concerns.