Access to financing remains a significant challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa, hindering their growth and job creation potential. Numerous intermediated lending programs…

Introduction Sustainable finance has moved from a niche concept to a mainstream financial strategy, particularly since the Paris Agreement placed the financial sector at the forefront of combating…

Background Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa are often at the mercy of stringent bank credit assessment criteria. Empirical observations on 13,783 SMEs in 41 African countries reveal the…

Digital financial services have for over two decades grown exponentially thereby driving financial inclusion for billions of people  (digital financial inclusion), opening up spectacular…

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…

  Many Africans countries are important players in the global fossil fuel market and their economies are heavily dependent on revenue from the extraction and export of fossil fuels. However, the…