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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

The COVID-19 pandemic showed the critical importance of digitization when travel and physical interactions were severely restricted. As digital platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams became the…