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 […]Continue Reading
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 […]Continue Reading
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 […]Continue Reading
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 […]Continue Reading
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 […]Continue Reading
“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 enabling the […]Continue Reading
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 […]Continue Reading
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 capacities. This Continue Reading
Like the majority of other economies, developing countries were hit by the recession in 2020. Two years after the outbreak of the pandemic, their recovery is however slower than in […]Continue Reading
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. […]Continue Reading
