Business environment and regional integration
Improving the business climate – in the sense of all the political, legal, economic, social factors, and so on, which determine investors’ choices and, at the same time, regional economic integration – allows to create markets that are sufficiently attractive for investment and trade. These critical factors generate sustainable growth, create jobs, and ensure the transition towards inclusive growth.
Expertise France takes action to strengthen overall economic and financial governance for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. With reference to Sustainable Development Goals n° 16 and 17, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda from the third international conference on financing for development, the agency contributes to the implementation of economic policies which aim to strengthen the private sector, develop Africa’s trade with the rest of the world, as well as intraregional trade, and diversify local economies.
Expertise France works to improve the business climate, with the aim of attracting international investors, strengthening legal and fiscal security, and promoting the transition from the informal economy to the formal economy. The agency uses all the relevant tools to support the emergence of micro-entrepreneurship.
Expertise France supports the creation and securing of public-private-partnership (PPP) projects and the harmonisation of national standards (uniform statistics, macroeconomic and budgetary convergence criteria, the lifting of tariff and non-tariff internal barriers, tax transition and harmonisation), in partnership with regional organisations.
SLEIDSE, a project to support sustainable and diversified employment in Libya, illustrates the agency’s action in this field: it is supporting economic recovery through the development of entrepreneurship, first and foremost by young people, and helping improve access for SMEs to financing, as well as the business environment.
The agency also supports the production and dissemination of high-quality statistics at national, regional and continental level through the Pan-African Statistics programme.
