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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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Recent Evolution of the African Financial Markets
Financial markets play an important role in financing Africa's private sector. Their recent growth in strength is unquestionable despite the sudden standstill caused by the 2008 crisis: sixfold increa...
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How can Africa's mineral resources help promote sustainable development?
Since 2003, demand for mineral resources has been bolstered by growth in emerging countries. In Africa, it opens a «window of opportunity» that can make its growth sustainable. The exploitation of its...
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Tourism in developing countries: a neglected lever of growth despite its potential
As the negative impacts of tourism are clearly visible, they tend to dominate the spheres of debate and research and consequently eclipse its positive spillover effects, which are less visible and mor...
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What tourism for remote areas in developing countries?
Remote sites in developing countries often present a major interest for tourism. Although the difficulties to access them, the lack of infrastructure and skilled human resources may pose a problem, “p...
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IFC's approach to investing in tourism
Although tourism plays a key role for developing countries, investment projects in these countries carry a high level of risk. This risk can only be borne via a long-term commitment and rigorous proj...
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Combining best practices and profit in tourism
In order to bring about economic growth, develop local human resources, as well as cultural and natural heritage – while reducing the ecological footprint of establishments to a minimum – the Serena H...
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Tourism: a risk for developing countries?
If all its impacts are not integrated and regulated, tourism may carry risks, particularly for least developed countries. Although “internal”, “external” or “invisible” foreign exchange leakages can w...
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Unlocking the potential of tourism in Zambia
Although Zambian authorities recognize the importance of tourism, the sector suffers from preconceived ideas. It is underperforming and only attracts 3% of tourists visiting Sub-Saharan Africa. And ye...
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An unconventional but essential marriage: pro-poor tourism and the mainstream industry
Pro-poor tourism has had a significant impact on the ‘tourism and development' agenda, but is unlikely to become hegemonic. Its impact on broader development debates, the mainstream tourism industry,...
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Choose Africa Resilience
This brochure presents Choose Africa Resilience programme to support the economic recovery of African businesses. Through the Choose Africa initiative launched in 2019, Agence Française de&nb...
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Equity Bank Holding : USD 100m loan from Proparco to support SMEs in Kenya
Equity Bank Holding is committed to small and medium-sized enterprises in several countries in East Africa. Proparco has allocated to Equity Bank to support SMEs in Kenya. This project is part of the...
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Climat - activity report 2019
Since 2015, tackling climate change has been a core aspect of the AFD Group identity. This positioning has been strengthened by the adoption of a 2017-2022 climate strategy that reflects the Group’s a...
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Presentation of Choose Africa Resilience guarantee
In response to the economic crisis triggered by Covid-19, which is hitting microenterprises and SMEs hard, AFD Group is extending its mechanism with Choose Africa Resilience. This EUR 1bn program is d...
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Presentation of Choose Africa Resilience
How the Resilience component of Choose Africa is deployed to companies in Africa weakened by the crisis related to Covid-19? Discover in video the AFD Group's solutions through two examples of clients...
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Teaser : presentation of Choose Africa Resilience
Teaser : Watch our video on AFD Group’s solutions with two examples of entrepreneurs in Africa.
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