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COVID 19 Industry and manufacturing sector Health

Short-term impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on the African manufacturing sector

  • Michaël Goujon Lecturer and researcher CERDI
  • Édouard Mien PhD student CERDI
29 September 2020
karim Akadiri Soumaïla
Initial reports and data on the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis between March and June 2020 highlight the relative resilience of African countries when compared to other emerging countries such […]Continue Reading
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Providing companies SME Financing

Equity investment to bring SMEs to scale: An interview with two African fund managers

  • J-P Fourie Director and Head of Investor Relations METIER
  • Lucas Kranck Founding Partner ASCENT
23 October 2019
©fdecomite
SMEs in Africa remain heavily reliant on internal resources and traditional bank debt. A lack of appropriate forms of finance – especially of the equity type – limits market entry, […]Continue Reading
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Agri-business Agricultural production

Under what conditions do labels support development? The example of coffee

  • Sylvain Ly Co-founder Basic
21 May 2019
© Didier Gentilhomme / AFD
The coffee sector, a source of income for 25 million producers around the world, is faced with social and environmental challenges which have led to it being a focus of […]Continue Reading
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Corporate governance

Taking over at the helm of a company: duties, challenges and solutions

  • Mossadeck Bally Founder, Chairman and CEO Azalaï Hotels Group
04 February 2019
©Azalai hotels group
The issue of taking over at the helm of a company has long been – and is still today – a taboo in Africa. When the time comes to appoint […]Continue Reading
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Supporting high-potential innovative start-ups

The impacts of digital credit in Africa: beware of negative externalities

  • Isabelle Barrès Vice President of the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion
01 June 2018
©Accion
Demand for credit in Africa exceeds supply, despite the rise in mobile money. Yet start-ups, growing daily in number, are at risk of accelerating over-indebtedness, by supplying credit to clients […]Continue Reading
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Infrastructures Transport

Freight: the African bet

  • Olivier Caslin Journalist at Jeune Afrique
10 April 2017
© Vincent Fournier/JA
Major shippers are increasingly turning to Africa to avoid fierce competition on more traditional routes. However, as freight volumes are still too low, overcapacity is a constant problem. At first […]Continue Reading
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Insurance Financial Sector

Life insurance in French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Pathé Dione President and founder SUNU
12 December 2016
© Fondation Grameen Crédit Agricole
This article summarises part of the work of professors Aymeric Kamega and Frédéric Planchet: “Presentation of the life insurance sector in Frenchspeaking Sub-Saharan Africa” at Université de Bretagne occidentale / Continue Reading
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Tourism

Tourism in Africa: a priceless resource with untapped potential

  • Mossadeck Bally Founder, Chairman and CEO Azalaï Hotels Group
27 June 2016
© Azalaï Hotels
Although there has been a significant increase in tourism in Africa, the sector’s abundant potential remains largely untapped on the continent. Mossadeck Bally gives an overview of the challenges and […]Continue Reading
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Education Health and Education

Tomorrow’s Africa: secondary and tertiary education, the catalyst for change

  • Fred Swaniker Fondateur et président exécutif African Leadership University
04 November 2015
© African Leadership Academy
Africa countries have made huge strides in providing universal access to primary schooling, but secondary and tertiary educational opportunities lag far behind – creating enormous development challenges. This, Continue Reading
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Agri-business Environment RSE

An agribusiness group pioneering CSR practice in Africa

  • Franck Eba Directeur du Développement durable SIFCA
05 October 2015
© SIFCA
The example of the Côte d’Ivoire group SIFCA demonstrates that CSR is a guarantee of sustainability and functions as a performance lever for companies. Since 2007, SIFCA has been committed […]Continue Reading
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