The Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO) as a sustainable development actor

Abstract: Private sector development is a model of international development that uses official development assistance to invest directly in the private sector enterprises in developing states. Since 2000s, many development finance institutions (DFIs) had been created, mostly in Europe and North America, to promote private sector development in the Global South. Belgian Investment Company for Developing States (BIO) is one such European DFI, investing in the private sector, as part of the Belgian Development Cooperation. In this study, which was commissioned by a group of Belgian civil society... Mehr ...