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Private Sector & Development #25 - The african insurance sector: building for the future
This edition of Private Sector & Development looks at the opportunities and obstacles facing insurance in Africa and presents analyses prepared by a number of sector stakeholders (insurers, researcher...
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3 questions to Vineet Rai, CEO of Aavishkaar
Founded in 2001, Aavishkaar (which means “invention” in Hindi) is India’s leading impact investment firm.
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3 questions to David Auerbach, co-founder of Sanergy
In the slum areas of Kenya’s capital, indoor flush toilets are a rarity. Most people have to make do with plastic bags and outdoor pit latrines. To remedy the situation, a company called Sanergy has b...
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Private Sector & Development #24 - Air transport, a vital challenge for Africa
Air transport in Africa still does not count for much on a global scale. However, strong GDP growth, the continent’s fast-growing urbanisation and the expansion of the middle classes – who want to tra...
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Strengthening the capabilities of clients' companies
Strengthening the capabilities of clients' companies
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Private Sector & Development #23 - Social Business: a different way of doing business and investing
In recent years, the concept of social business has emerged as a middle road between philanthropy and the pursuit of maximum profit. This is the topic of the 23rd Private Sector & Development magazine...
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Proparco Annual report 2014
2014 was an impactful year for PROPARCO, one in which we adopted a new strategy and increased our share capital by €200m. With a changing range of international fi nancing available to Southern Hemisp...
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Private Sector & Development #22 - Scaling-up private sector climate finance
This twenty-second issue of Private Sector & Development investigates the private sector’s role in financing the energy transition, exploring pathways for achieving the expansion that is so crucial fo...
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Private Sector & Development #21 - Promoting CSR in Africa: a sustainable development opportunity
The last decade has seen the CSR spread across every continent, transforming businesses. The major international organisations have produced guidelines, norms and standards to provide the private sect...
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Private Sector & Development #20 - Unlocking the potential of the private sector to improve education
Significant progress has been achieved in the education sphere since the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000. In ten years, the number of children attending primary school in the world’s developing...
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Private Sector & Development #19 - Private sector crucial to resolve housing challenges
Decent, affordable housing is crucial to development. It determines living standards; its location affects employment opportunities, while its mass construction can generate thousands of jobs.
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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of EDFI Support for SME Development in Africa
The members of the association of European Developement Finance Institutions, EDFI, have joibtly commisioned an evaluation of the effectiveness of EDFI members' support for SME development through Fin...
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