Apr 30, 2024
Firms in sub-Saharan Africa face significant constraints to growth owing to different factors, including inadequate access to credit from the formal banking sector. At the same time, the lack of…
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Mar 26, 2024
Recently, the issue of women's empowerment has begun to take center stage in the development agenda of most African countries. This interest has gained even more credibility following the United…
Mar 04, 2024
SMEs are the backbone of African economies, providing over 60% of employment, generating some 40% of the GDP. SMEs are merchants, traders, producers, innovators, plumbers, smallholder farmers,…
Feb 01, 2024
Introduction
Many studies emphasize country-level factors in the dynamics of venture capital (VC) investments across the African continent, while the role of networks in shaping economic…
Dec 04, 2023
Financial technology (Fintech) innovations are becoming the mainstay of the global financial sector and user responses to these innovations have been remarkably positive and embraced at an…
Nov 07, 2023
Burkina Faso, like most developing countries, is characterized by a large informal sector, populated mainly by small, unregistered firms with low productivity and not paying taxes. According to the…
Sep 26, 2023
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for around half of formal employment in North Africa. These figures would even be significantly higher if SMEs operating in the informal sector were…