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The governance of Proparco is based on structures that guarantee the transparency of its operation as well as its good management. Under the direction of Françoise Lombard, the General management prep...
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BOAD Titrisation, AFINHAB, Ecobank and Proparco complete affordable housing securitisation
BOAD Titrisation, the Ecobank Group and Proparco have successfully completed a securitisation transaction under the ZAKA programme, sponsored by AFINHAB. The transaction mobilises long-term private ca...
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Proparco extends USD 50 million loan to City Bank to support climate finance, women-led businesses and SMEs gr...
Proparco, the private sector financing arm of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group, has signed a USD 50 million senior loan agreement with City Bank PLC to support climate finance, women-...
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Private Sector & Development #16 - New players and new banking models for Africa
The African banking sector – largely dominated by the European banks through to the late 1990s – is currently undergoing radical change. Alongside the sector’s traditional players, regional operations...
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Private Sector & Development #17 - Does the private sector help improve healthcare systems in developing count...
There is no denying the healthcare progress made by developing countries. However, the sector needs additional financing to meet growing needs. What is the role for private investment?
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Special issue - Independent power producers: a solution for Africa?
Demand for electricity in sub-Saharan Africa is growing fast – driven primarily by economic growth and by policies for widening access to electricity – and yet production capacity has developed very l...
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Private Sector & Development #19 - Private sector crucial to resolve housing challenges
Decent, affordable housing is crucial to development. It determines living standards; its location affects employment opportunities, while its mass construction can generate thousands of jobs.
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Private Sector & Development #21 - Promoting CSR in Africa: a sustainable development opportunity
The last decade has seen the CSR spread across every continent, transforming businesses. The major international organisations have produced guidelines, norms and standards to provide the private sect...
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Private Sector & Development #22 - Scaling-up private sector climate finance
This twenty-second issue of Private Sector & Development investigates the private sector’s role in financing the energy transition, exploring pathways for achieving the expansion that is so crucial fo...
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Private Sector & Development #23 - Social Business: a different way of doing business and investing
In recent years, the concept of social business has emerged as a middle road between philanthropy and the pursuit of maximum profit. This is the topic of the 23rd Private Sector & Development magazine...
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Private Sector & Development #24 - Air transport, a vital challenge for Africa
Air transport in Africa still does not count for much on a global scale. However, strong GDP growth, the continent’s fast-growing urbanisation and the expansion of the middle classes – who want to tra...
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Private Sector & Development #25 - The african insurance sector: building for the future
This edition of Private Sector & Development looks at the opportunities and obstacles facing insurance in Africa and presents analyses prepared by a number of sector stakeholders (insurers, researcher...
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Private Sector & Development #26 - African ports: gateway to development
This 26th issue focuses on the African port sector. The magazine features analyses provided by experts from ISEMAR, SETRAG, Jeune Afrique and AFD, to get an insight into this rapidly growing sector th...
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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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Private Sector & Development #1 - SME financing in sub-saharan Africa
The private sector is a powerful tool for the development of poor countries. It is both the main engine for growth and job creation and an intermediary for public policy, in particular thanks to publi...
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Private Sector & Development #2 - How can the private sector help provide access to drinking water in developi...
We have decided to devote this second issue of Private Sector and Development – a bimonthly magazine that compares the opinions of Proparco’s community of investors with those of academic experts and...
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Private Sector & Development #4 - What are the economic and social impacts of the mobile phone sector in deve...
In most South countries, the mobile phone sector has developed – under the impetus and supervision of public regulatory authorities – via the private sector. A considerable number of developing countr...
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