Private Sector & Development #41: Acting in Fragile Contexts
Explores the private sector’s role in fragile contexts, including resilience, jobs, essential services, and DFI investment approaches. Relevant to SMEs and entrepreneurs operating in fragile African markets.
Law in Transition 2024
Includes legal and governance analysis relevant to business competitiveness, ESG, supply-chain integration and access to finance. Useful for enabling environment and SME governance.
Impact Report 2024
Reports on EBRD impact in green, digital, inclusive and private-sector development. Includes data on support for women-led firms and business finance through local banks.
Transition Report 2023-24: Transitions Big and Small
Focuses on major transitions including sustainability, reconfigured global supply chains, and micro-level transitions affecting firms and households. Useful for SME competitiveness and private-sector policy.
Transition Report 2024-25: Navigating Industrial Policy
Analyzes industrial policy and transition to market-oriented economies. Useful for policy makers and practitioners considering industrial upgrading, competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and private sector development.
West Africa Economic Outlook 2024
Regional economic outlook for West Africa, relevant for understanding macroeconomic conditions, structural constraints, and opportunities for SMEs, entrepreneurship, and private-sector-led growth.
East Africa Economic Outlook 2024
Regional economic outlook for East Africa, including macroeconomic conditions and policy issues that shape SME growth, investment, regional trade, and private-sector development.
Country Focus Report 2023 – Kenya: Mobilizing Private Sector Financing for Climate and Green Growth
Reviews private-sector financing opportunities for climate and green growth in Kenya. Relevant to investors, SMEs, and entrepreneurs active in climate-related sectors.
Evaluation of EIB Group Strategy on Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment
Evaluates EIB’s gender equality strategy and includes references to facilities such as Africa Women Rising and women’s entrepreneurship-related technical assistance. Useful for gender finance and women’s economic empowerment learning.
African Economic Outlook 2024
AfDB’s flagship continental economic report covers Africa’s macroeconomic outlook and development financing agenda. Relevant for understanding the enabling environment for entrepreneurship, private sector development, investment, and industrialization.
