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PSDI helps Pacific countries achieve sustainable and inclusive economic growth by improving their business environments.

Reforms supported by PSDI reduce constraints to doing business, incentivize entrepreneurship and investment, foster new business models, and remove barriers to women’s full participation in the economy. This allows the private sector to formalize and grow, which creates jobs, increases tax revenues, and helps lift people out of poverty.

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20 August 2024
Women In Business Leadership Report Launched at Breakfast Event hosted by PSDI, PNGID, and BCFW

A PSDI event in Port Moresby convened a crowd of PNG’s government, business, and civil society representatives, to discuss the findings of the expanded Papua New Guinea edition of Leadership Matters 2024: Benchmarking Women in Business Leadership in the Pacific.

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7 August 2024
Senior Executive Women in Leadership Program Delivered in Fiji

A group of 25 women have graduated from the Senior Executive Women in Leadership Program, presented by the Fiji Institute of Chartered Accountants (FICA) in partnership with PSDI.

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1 August 2024
Women’s Business Leadership is Growing in the Pacific, but Significant Gender Gaps Persist

The proportion of women in business leadership in the Pacific is steadily increasing, but persistent barriers slow the ideal rate of progress, according to a new report published today by the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB’s) Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI).

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24 July 2024
Cost Savings Will Grow as Renewable Energy Investment Increases—PSDI

Pacific island countries have ambitious targets to increase their investments in renewable energy, which will reduce electricity generation costs and improve supply reliability, according to a new policy paper published today by the Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative.

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