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Renewable energies and energy efficiency: Beauty and the Beast
Policies to develop renewable energies and energy efficiency are essential in order to tackle the looming energy crisis. Although least developed countries enjoy real potential, the required transform...
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Financial Development and Economic Growth: Stock Markets versus Banks?
Economic theories diverge radically on the role that banks and markets play in the development of a financial sector – and the link they have with economic growth. It is essential to answer these ques...
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How Can Development Partners Support the Financial Sector in Africa?
Although Africa's financial sector was not severely affected by the 2008 crisis, the latter did however reveal its structural weaknesses – including the narrowness of markets and the low level of cred...
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What Are the Determinants of Financial Market Development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Sub-Saharan Africa's financial markets are generally immature and are widely characterized by their low level of activity and the domination of the banking sector. However, if a market and its economy...
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Motives for a Multiple Listing on African Stock Exchanges: The Ecobank Experience
In 2006, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated launched a simultaneous public offering operation on three African stock markets. €is exceptional listing gave the group greater financial flexibility, a di...
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Listing on African Stock Exchanges: Many Advantages and Few Drawbacks
The international hotel group TPS EA's listing on the Nairobi Stock Exchange enhanced its visibility and reputation and fostered its commercial development. Moreover, by opening its capital to the gen...
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ACON ALAOF IV
The ALAOF IV fund is dedicated to midcaps located in Latin America. It aims to strengthen the private sector in a wide range of fields, from health to energy, and including infrastructure.
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Popular Shareholding in Africa, both a Political and Financial Tool
Popular shareholding in the context of Africa would seem doomed to failure, yet it has now become a major development area for African financial markets. This type of equity ownership seems to have me...
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The private sector and pharmaceutical industry in Africa
Providing access to quality medicines still poses a number of challenges in Africa. Distribution channels are often fragmented, with a large number of intermediaries or parallel channels, which often...
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In Rwanda, “hospitals can now use RapidSMS data to get ready for new arrivals!”
The RapidSMS telemedecine platform makes it possible for Community Health Workers (CHWs) to share data: between 2009 and 2015, it helped to save the lives of around 590,000 new-born babies and it has...
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Public infrastructure: a key driver in supporting private players
In situations of vulnerability and crisis, investment in infrastructure by international development institutions can provide a solid base to support the recovery and reconstruction of a State.
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Socolait: using counter-cyclical investment to emerge stronger from a crisis
By investing in plant renovation and new products, restructuring its distribution system and deploying a local milk collection network, the Malagasy agri-food operator Socolait has managed to contend...
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What tools to finance the private sector in fragile states? The experience of the International Finance Corpor...
Over half of the world’s poor will be living in fragile and conflict-affected situations by 2030. Addressing the challenges of poverty and human development is impossible without taking into account t...
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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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