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Press Kit - New Delhi - Proparco's 40th anniversary
At Proparco, we strongly believe that the private sector holds a great responsibility in contributing to economic development while delivering significant positive impacts for the populations and the...
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Proparco, Partnering with financial institutions for sustainable development
Each year, Proparco commits 40% of its total financing in favour of financial institutions who play a key role in fostering sustainable economic growth. Proparco is among the most active Development F...
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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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Video - Financing start-ups to build tomorrow's african economies, edition no. 29 of Proparco’s magazine
While it is still far from achieving a penetration similar to the American continent, Europe or Asia, venture capital investment is experiencing strong and continuous growth In Africa. For example, in...
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Proparco finances Lynk, a Kenyan start-up transforming the informal sector
In Kenya, close to 80% of the population works in the informal sector. Lynk created a platform that allows workers to create a career identity online and then helps individuals and companies hire them...
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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 #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 #20 - Unlocking the potential of the private sector to improve education
Significant progress has been achieved in the education sphere since the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000. In ten years, the number of children attending primary school in the world’s developing...
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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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