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Banks Financial Sector

Supporting the emergence of a sustainable financial sector in Africa

  • Laureen Kouassi-Olsson Project manager Proparco
27 May 2013
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The last ten years have seen a local banking sector emerge in Africa, alongside the European banks that have traditionally been present. While a development model based on these local […]Continue Reading
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Agri-business Forests

Meeting the challenge of sustainable forest management

  • Martin Perrier Director ONF International
18 June 2012
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Forests serve ecological functions (they regulate the water cycle, sequester carbon and help preserve biodiversity), social functions (providing places to live, a means of subsistence) and economic functions (jobs Continue Reading
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Agri-business Agricultural production

Village plantations central to sustainable agribusiness

  • Bertrand Vignes Director of the Natural Rubber Unit SIFCA
26 March 2012
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Development of village plantations is a major contributor to the expansion of sub-Saharan Africa’s agribusiness sector. SIFCA has instigated a strategy to assist outgrowers and in particular to support the Continue Reading
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Private equity Private equity in Africa

Private equity and SMEs: an instrument for growth

  • Jean-Michel Severino Chairman I&P
23 November 2011
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Stabilising growth in Africa – growth which is real but fragile – depends partly on the dynamism of SMEs, which receive little in the way of private equity support.  Funds’ […]Continue Reading
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Oil, Gas and Mining Mining

What are the impacts of the African mining sector liberalization?

  • Gary McMahon Spécialist The World Bank Group
31 January 2011
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Mineral sector reform has brought mining back to Africa – aided by price rises in the early 2000s – mpacting on investment, growth and poverty reduction. And there are no […]Continue Reading
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Tourism

Tourism: a risk for developing countries?

  • Jean-Jacques Nowak Senior Lecturer in Economic Science Université de Lille
  • Mondher Sahli Senior Lecturer Victoria University of Wellington
11 October 2010
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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 weaken the Continue Reading
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