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SME Financing Supporting high-potential innovative start-ups

Are digital technologies set to revolutionise SME financing in Africa?

  • Aiaze Mitha
21 February 2020
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According to Aiaze Mitha, an entrepreneur and Fintech expert, the many digital innovations that are emerging and already exist could transform each stage of the financing value chain, opening a […]Continue Reading
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SME Finance as seen by regulators : Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

  • L’Alliance pour l’inclusion financière (AFI) This article is a collective work of several authors THE ALLIANCE FOR FINANCIAL INCLUSION (AFI)
09 January 2020
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Access to finance for African SMEs is a key challenge. Through this article, the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) aims to share the experiences and practices of member countries that […]Continue Reading
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SME Financing Supporting high-potential innovative start-ups

Digitisation in Africa: Channelling Funding to SMEs

  • Matthew Gamser CEO SME FINANCE FORUM
26 December 2019
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Could innovation emerge from near destruction? Would the digitisation that led to the global financial crisis preclude SMEs from obtaining the finance they needed to continue playing the crucial role […]Continue Reading
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SME Financing Corporate governance

What are the main reasons for micro-business and SME loan default in Sub-Saharan Africa?

  • Nicolas Picchiottino Senior Investment Officer Proparco
11 December 2019
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Micro- and small- and medium-sized businesses (micro-businesses and SMEs) are a vital part of Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic fabric but frequently suffer from poor access to funding and this represents one […]Continue Reading
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Financing African SMEs

  • Proparco
07 November 2019
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Understanding SMEs in developing countries to meet their needs more effectively

  • Bertrand Savoye Senior Economist AFD
23 September 2019
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There is now universal agreement on the crucial role of SMEs – which comprise the bulk of businesses in developing countries – particularly in creating jobs. Nevertheless, there are many […]Continue Reading
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The diversity of social business: the case of Madagascar

  • Nicolas Vincent Research Officer AFD
16 May 2016
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Despite a troubled macroeconomic and political environment, Madagascar possesses a fairly diversified, dynamic economic fabric in comparison to other countries with a similar level of development. This national Continue Reading
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Climat Environment

Encouraging banking sector participation in climate finance, the case of Kenya

  • Betty Maina Former Chief Executive KAM
16 December 2015
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The development of energy resources and energy efficiency in Kenya is a current necessity as well as a big challenge. To meet that challenge, Kenya’s Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has […]Continue Reading
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Pooling – an innovative way of releasing capital for renewable energy in India

  • Inderpreet S. Wadhwa Founder and chief executive officer Azure Power
10 December 2015
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The Indian government’s electrification plans offers major opportunities for renewable energies, with small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) best placed to meet them. They, however, face challenges in Continue Reading
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Agri-business Forests

$ 40 billion needed to reduce global deforestation

  • Tuukka Castrén senior forestry specialis The World Bank Group
26 October 2015
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Private financing for sustainable forest management is far greater than public financing, but still falls far short of what is needed to halve global deforestation by 2020. There is a […]Continue Reading
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