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Building inclusive, green and resilient economies
Recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic has provided countries with a unique opportunity to 'build back better'. Leveraging this opportunity will entail ensuring that stimulus and policy packages are both...
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Responding to pandemics: development funders light the way
Three key figures in development finance institutions working with the healthcare sectors of developing countries provide their insights gleaned at the coalface of pandemic responses. The funding and...
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How digital innovation supports development and can aid the Covid-19 recovery
During the Covid-19 pandemic, many day-to-day activities – meetings, working, shopping- were made possible because they moved online. This highlighted the critical role of digital infrastructure in su...
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Scaling up blended finance to build back better
Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been delayed by Covid-19, leading to a rise in poverty and inequality. Additional effort is needed to adapt to climate change: funding will be req...
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Development finance institutions: major players in Africa’s post-Covid recovery
For the past two years, Proparco and its European counterparts have been on the front line in tackling the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Through record financial commitments and a w...
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Advans Côte d'Ivoire 2015
The capital increase of Advans Côte d’Ivoire, the country’s third largest microfinance institution, will support the development of its activities, particularly outside Abidjan where populations are g...
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Beyond recovery: toward innovative, inclusive private sector financing
Despite the extensive use of development finance institutions (DFIs) in recent years, the Covid-19 pandemic has shed a harsh light on the persistence of gender inequalities, particularly in terms of a...
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Stakeholders’ voice – using technology to collect feedback directly from the key people
The world has now lived with the Covid-19 pandemic for over two years. The evidence shows that it has hit the least-developed countries the hardest. At the same time, climate change is increasingly af...
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The pandemic as a driver of innovation for private sector companies in Africa
During the last two years, a large number of companies have developed innovative strategies to navigate through the Covid-19 crisis. What this meant: everything that could be organised remotely in doi...
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Europe’s huge opportunity: mobilising the private sector for development
“Team Europe” is a space that allows for strengthened cooperation across European development finance actors. For the European DFIs, strengthened cooperation with EU institutions will be key to enabli...
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European DFIs in a troubled world: strategic actors of the European financial architecture for development
In a rapidly changing world threatened by the risk of irreversible climate change, major crises and an increasingly polarised world order, Europe has to articulate its external actions in a more strat...
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Building a collaborative recovery
Collaboration among European DFIs has continued to grow during the pandemic and has helped these institutions achieve their investment objectives based on complementary expertise, networks and capacit...
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Innovative responses to Covid-19 for private sector recovery in Africa
In Africa, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have been the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, which resulted in the biggest contraction in Africa in the last 25 years. While large-scale e...
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Unlocking the DRC’s power potential through technical assistance
With technical assistance from the FCDO-funded Essor Programme, the world's largest solar mini-grids are set to come online in 2023, changing the paradigm of the electricity sector. This project is th...
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Financing SMEs in a context of strong information asymmetry
The acuteness of information asymmetries between bankers and entrepreneurs, which cannot be offset by adequate loan securitization, constitutes one of the main stumbling blocks to SME financing in SSA...
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Credit to the Private Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: Developments and Issues
Despite signs of progress, SSA is still lagging compared to other regions when it comes to scaling up the volume of loans allocated to the private sector. If it is to catch up, some progress needs to...
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AGRIF
AgRIF is an investment fund managed by Incofin. It mainly targets financial intermediaries whose clients are smallholders, microenterprises and SMEs established in rural areas in developing countries...
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Bank financing to SMEs: what are Africa's specificities?
Using bank survey data, this article compares the scale and type of bank lending to SMEs in Africa to that available outside the region. The data shows that bank financing to SMEs in Africa is less si...
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Rethingking finance for Africa's small firms
African banks had just started to show interest in SMEs when the global crisis reversed the tide. The risk for SMEs is that they will suddenly be barred access to credit whereas they need long-term f...
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Tapping into the private sector for food system transformation
To attain SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), sustainable food systems – including small-scale farming, agri-SMEs, and local food processing – will require structured development. This necessitates private engagemen...
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