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The complex challenge of building a home loans market in Ghana
Inadequate real-estate supply and the absence of a deep capital market have hampered the development of the home loans market in Ghana. The rapid success of Ghana Home Loans, which now provides nearly...
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Regulated rental sector can meet the urban housing challenge
Governments in developing countries have rightly promoted homeownership as a way of alleviating poverty. But, faced with rapid population growth and the prospect of millions ending up in slums, they m...
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A new generation of real-estate developers focusing on low-income housing
Developers who want to enter India's affordable housing market face many obstacles. But with an estimated market value of USD 245 billion, the sector is attracting growing interest. Tata Housing, one...
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Housing the world: leveraging private-sector resources for the public good
By 2030, around 3 billion people in the developing world will need housing. That means 565 million new units, adding to the current gap of more than 400 million homes. Building these will provide much...
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Developing renewable energies in Africa: a public-private partnership
Likewise mobile phone for telecommunication, is sub-Saharan Africa on the verge to leapfrog conventional energy and move straight to renewable energy (RE)1 to address requirements for capacity additio...
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Mining, the key to unlocking Africa's independent power producer markets
The size of power needs in most African countries and the investment required limits the number of projects that can realistically be funded in-country. The private sector could help, particularly whe...
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Assessing the impacts of new IPPs at country level? Case study on Kenya
Independent power producer (IPP) investments are making a real contribution to increasing the provision of electricity in Kenya, and in reducing outages. This analysis demonstrates the development pot...
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Driving growth by providing economically sustainable power
Globeleq focuses on independent power projects (IPPs) in the emerging markets of Africa and Central America. The company is dedicated to enabling growth; the good performance of its operations; delive...
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Stimulating private investment in the forestry sector
Deforestation has devastating effects in developing countries. Managed sustainably, forestry projects provide solutions to economic, environmental and social problems by creating jobs, developing infr...
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Preliminary feedback on FSC certification from an operator's point of view
In 2008, Rougier embarked on the process of securing FSC certification for its Gabon concessions and for its traceability chain (FSC-C017653). The decision was essentially a leap of faith: at that tim...
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Forest management plans in the Congo basin
More than half the forests in the Congo Basin have been allocated as concessions, and most are covered by Forest Management Plans (FMPs). The introduction of these plans – supported by French cooperat...
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Forest management by community forest enterprises
For conservation to be synonymous with development, local populations need to be involved in forest management. Traditional community-based forest management is, however, not without its drawbacks. Th...
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Developping the forestry sector with carbon markets
Forests are vital carbon sinks. Although forestry projects dominate the voluntary carbon markets, they still occupy a marginal position on the larger, compliance markets. This is mainly due to their i...
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Forestry assets in Africa : promising returns
Solid biological growth rates, low establishment and maintenance costs, land availability, and demand for forestry products make Africa an attractive forestry option. Typical emerging market risks as...
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Meeting the challenge of sustainable forest management
Forests serve ecological functions (they regulate the water cycle, sequester carbon and help preserve biodiversity), social functions (providing places to live, a means of subsistence) and economic fu...
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Refining trade regulation to support and stabilise local agricultural production in Africa
Rice and sugar production in West Africa is inadequate. Imports meet a significant proportion of this region's consumption requirements, undermining its food sovereignty. Trade regulation, if it is mo...
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Africa at the heart of growth
The agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa is impeded by numerous constraints: production weaknesses, the difficulty of accessing finance, infrastructure conditions and the impact of the regulatory...
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Challenges for agricultural financing
With state funding coming to an end, Ghana's Agricultural Development Bank is reorganising to meet the agricultural sector's needs more effectively – stepping up its strategy of specialisation, creati...
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Village plantations central to sustainable agribusiness
Development of village plantations is a major contributor to the expansion of sub-Saharan Africa's agribusiness sector. SIFCA has instigated a strategy to assist outgrowers and in particular to suppor...
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The volatility of agricultural prices undermines food security in developing countries
The volatility of agricultural prices undermines food security in developing countries. It is a well-known issue which calls for proactive, consistent agricultural policies that address the various ri...
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