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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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Private Sector & Development #18 - Independent power producers: a solution for Africa?
This issue explores the benefits and the requirements of increased intervention in electricity production by the private sector. Developing efficient public-private partnerships would seem to be the b...
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Private Sector & Development #17 - Does the private sector help improve healthcare systems in developing count...
There is no denying the healthcare progress made by developing countries. However, the sector needs additional financing to meet growing needs. What is the role for private investment?
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Proparco Annual report 2012
In 2012, we consolidated our role as promoter of development and our status as responsible financier of the private sector in the South. To start with, we stepped up our presence in Sub-Saharan Africa...
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Private Sector & Development #16 - New players and new banking models for Africa
The African banking sector – largely dominated by the European banks through to the late 1990s – is currently undergoing radical change. Alongside the sector’s traditional players, regional operations...
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European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) and private sector combat climate change in the developing wo...
Climate change is the most far-reaching challenge the world faces in coming decades. Estimates of the costs of mitigating climate change and adapting to it vary, but they all indicate massive need of...
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Private Sector & Development #15 - Waste: the challenges facing developing countries
Open dumping of waste presents a real threat to the environment and to human health and is commonplace in developing countries. Constrained by budget pressures, towns and cities in the southern hemisp...
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Private Sector & Development #14 - Utilising, developing and preserving forests: finding the balance
Forests are important carbon sinks that play a vital role in maintaining the world’s ecological balances. However, population growth and urbanisation are intensifying pressure on forested land in the...
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EDFI energy evaluation 2012
This is a synthesis of findings from in-depth evaluations of three EDFI energy infrastructure investments in sub-Saharan Africa. The evaluation focussed on understanding the development impact and dis...
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Private Sector & Development #13 - Development initiatives for sub-Saharan agriculture and food production ind...
Sub-Saharan Africa is about to undergo an unprecedented demographic explosion: in 40 years its population will triple and the ratio of urban to rural dwellers will be reversed. Today, and even more so...
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