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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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Mentoring and support: A key element in the sustainability of SMEs.

  • Parminder Vir OBE
07 February 2020
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While there is a need for more research in the area of entrepreneur mentoring in Africa, the existing research shows a return on mentoring investment (ROMI) in the form of […]Continue Reading
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SME Financing Corporate governance

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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Equity investment to bring to scale: An interview with two financed SMEs

  • Jean-Philippe Bigot
  • Habib Hassim (Français) Directeur général du groupe Hassim FOOD & BEVERAGE MADAGASCAR
13 November 2019
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As we have repeated on a number of occasions in this issue – and the different articles have borne this out – access to funding is one of the key […]Continue Reading
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Financing African SMEs

  • Proparco
07 November 2019
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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
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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

Complementarity between agro-industry and smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Bertrand Vignes Director of the Natural Rubber Unit SIFCA
30 September 2019
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By providing jobs, technical assistance and development projects to village communities, industrial groups strengthen their economic and social well-being – and can complete their production with the production of Continue Reading
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Health Health and Education

The essential transformation of supply chains in the sub-Saharan pharmaceutical sector

  • Natasha Sunderji Global Health Lead Accenture Development Partnerships
30 March 2018
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, integrated technology-enabled distribution networks can increase access, enhance quality and lower the prices of medicines. Sub-Saharan Africa’s pharmaceutical market represents a huge Continue Reading
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Life insurance in French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Pathé Dione President and founder SUNU
12 December 2016
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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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Mining as a transformative opportunity for Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Sudeshna Banerjee The World Bank Group
  • Gary McMahon Spécialist The World Bank Group
  • Zayra Romo The World Bank Group
26 September 2016
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Mining can be a formidable transformative opportunity for Sub-Saharan Africa but measures and regulations are required to strengthen the finances of the local utilities and provide a less uncertain and […]Continue Reading
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