Download or read book Making Investment Work for Africa A parliamentarian response to land grabs written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Investment Work for Africa written by Carin Smaller and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Finance Work for Africa written by Patrick Honohan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on its extensive experience in helping restructure and reform financial systems, the World Bank examines the state of African domestic financial systems in a global comparison. It identifies promising trends as well as pinpointing the major shortcomings that are observed across sub-Saharan Africa. Policy recommendations distinguish between those designed to make finance a more effective driver of economic growth and those designed to give low income, small-scale and other excluded groups better access to financial services.
Download or read book Making Foreign Direct Investment Work for Sub Saharan Africa written by Thomas Farole and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of a groundbreaking study on spillovers of knowledge and technology from global value-chain oriented foreign direct investment (FDI) in Sub-Saharan Africa, and discusses implications for policymakers hoping to harness the power of FDI for economic development.
Download or read book Making Africa Work written by Greg Mills and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045. By then more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly young people will be connected through mobile devices. Properly harnessed and planned for, these are positive forces for change. Without economic growth and jobs, they could prove a political and social catastrophe. Old systems of patronage and of muddling through will no longer work. Making Africa Work is a practical account of how to ensure growth beyond commodities, and to create jobs. It's a handbook for dynamic leadership inside and outside the continent."--Back cover
Download or read book Unlocking Africa s Business Potential written by Landry Signe and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa welcomes business investment and offers some of the world's highest returns and impacts Africa has tremendous economic potential and offers rewarding opportunities for global businesses looking for new markets and long-term investments with favorable returns. Africa has been one of the world's fastest-growing regions over the past decade, and by 2030 will be home to nearly 1.7 billion people and an estimated $6.7 trillion worth of consumer and business spending. Increased political stability in recent years and improving regional integration are making market access easier, and business expansion will generate jobs for women and youth, who represent the vast majority of the population. Current economic growth and poverty-alleviation efforts mean that more than 43 percent of the continent's people will reach middle- or upper-class status by 2030. Unlocking Africa's Business Potential examines business opportunities in the eight sectors with the highest potential returns on private investment—the same sectors that will foster economic growth and diversification, job creation, and improved general welfare. These sectors include: consumer markets, agriculture and agriprocessing, information and communication technology, manufacturing, oil and gas, tourism, banking, and infrastructure and construction. The book's analysis of these sectors is based on case studies that identify specific opportunities for investment and growth, along with long-term market projections to inform decision-making. The book identifies potential risks to business and offers mitigation strategies. It also provides policymakers with solutions to attract new business investments, including how to remove barriers to business and accelerate development of the private sector.
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Download or read book How to Succeed in the African Market written by Winfred Oppong-Amoako and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home to some of the world’s fastest-growing economies, Africa is a hot investment destination. More than 75 per cent of companies and investors in Africa are successful. Why? And how could you reap the benefits of doing business on the continent? In this book, business adviser, executive coach and author Winfred Oppong-Amoako presents a detailed picture of Africa’s investment environment, outlining the risks, challenges, misconceptions and opportunities, and providing a step-by-step guide for approaching the African market. The book covers key topics such as informal trading, China’s investment in the continent and the impact of recession on long-term GDP growth, and lays out certain factors that need to be taken into consideration before investing, such as cross-border trading, corruption, permits and legal contracts. If you’re new to investment or a successful businessperson looking to expand your brand, How to Succeed in the African Market is an indispensable reference, giving you the information that will enable you to make informed decisions and prosper.
Download or read book Light Manufacturing in Africa written by Hinh T. Dinh and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-Saharan Africa's need for structural transformation and productive job creation, given its potential competitiveness based on low wage costs and an abundance of natural resources that supply raw materials needed for industries. Based on five different analytical tools and data sources, the book examines in detail the binding constraints in each of the subsectors relevant for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): apparel, leather goods, metal products, agribusiness, and wood products. Ethiopia is used as an example, with Vietnam as a comparator and China as a benchmark, and with insights from Tanzania and Zambia used to draw out lessons more broadly for SSA. The book recommends a program of focused policies to exploit Africa's latent comparative advantage in a particular group of light manufacturing industries - especially leather goods, garments, and agricultural processing. These industries hold the prospect of initiating rapid, substantial, and potentially self-propelling waves of rising output, employment, productivity, and exports that can push countries like Ethiopia on a path of structural change of the sort recently achieved in both China and Vietnam. The timing for these initiatives is very appropriate as China's comparative advantage in these areas is diminishing due to steep cost increases associated with rising wages and non-wage labor costs, escalating land prices, and mounting regulatory costs. Five features of this book distinguish it from previous studies. First, the detailed work on light manufacturing at the subsector and product levels in five countries provide in-depth cost comparisons between Asia and Africa that can be used as a framework for future studies. Second, the book uses a wide array of quantitative and qualitative techniques to identify key constraints to enterprises and to evaluate firm performance differences across countries. Third, the findings that firm constraints vary by country, sector, and firm size led to a focused approach to identifying constraints and combining market-based measures and select government intervention to remove them. Fourth, the solution to light manufacturing problems cuts across many sectors: solving the manufacturing inputs problem requires solving specific issues in agriculture, education, and infrastructure. African countries cannot afford to wait until all the problems across sectors are resolved. Fifth, the book draws on experiences and solutions from other developing countries to inform its recommendations. This book will be very valuable to African policy makers, professional economists, and anyone interested in the economic development, industrialization, and structural transformation of developing countries.
Download or read book The South African s Guide to Global Investing written by David A. Joshua and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most South Africans fail to reap the benefits of investing internationally. This book gives you the power to harness global growth, and provides the blueprint used by the world’s best investors to preserve and grow their wealth. Drawing from a career providing international investment solutions to global clients, David A. Joshua identifies common mistakes made by individual investors, and explains the key fundamentals that everyone can apply to take control of their financial destiny. This book provides the tools to understand: • Why South Africans make sub-optimal investment decisions, and how they can overcome their subjective biases. • The power – and necessity – of investing with a global mindset. • How to harness global growth to generate compounding, Einstein’s ‘eighth wonder of the world’. • How and when you should exchange your rands for hard currency. • How to align your life goals with a specific investment strategy. • Why emotions are the enemy of investors, and what strategies you can use to keep your decision-making rational. For anyone wanting a clear understanding of how to invest successfully in global markets, this book is essential reading.
Download or read book The Future of Work in Africa written by Jieun Choi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of Work in Africa focuses on the key themes of creating productive jobs and addressing the needs of those left behind. It highlights how global trends, especially the adoption of digital technologies, may change the nature of work in Sub-Saharan Africa by creating new opportunities and challenges. It argues that, contrary to global fears of worker displacement by new technologies, African countries can develop an inclusive future of work, with opportunities for lower-skilled workers. Harnessing these opportunities is, however, contingent on implementing policies and making productive investments in four main areas. These are enabling inclusive digital technologies; building human capital for a young, rapidly growing, and largely low-skilled labor force; increasing the productivity of informal workers and enterprises; and extending social protection coverage to mitigate the risks associated with disruptions to labor markets. This companion report to the World Bank’s World Development Report 2019 concludes with important policy questions that should guide future research, whose findings could lead to more inclusive growth for African nations.
Download or read book The Great African Land Grab written by Lorenzo Cotula and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy, making headlines in media reports across the world. Land that only a short time ago seemed of little outside interest is now being sought by international investors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of hectares. Private-sector expectations of higher world food and commodity prices and government concerns about longer-term national food and energy security have both made land a more attractive asset. Dubbed 'land grabs' in the media, large-scale land acquisitions have become one of the most talked about and contentious topics amongst those studying, working in or writing about Africa. Some commentators have welcomed this trend as a bearer of new livelihood opportunities. Others have countered by pointing to negative social impacts, including loss of local land rights, threats to local food security and the risk that large-scale investments may marginalize family farming. Lorenzo Cotula, a leading expert in the field, casts a critical eye over the most reliable evidence on this hotly contested topic, examining the implications of land deals in Africa both for its people and for world agriculture and food security.
Download or read book International Investment Law and Policy in Africa written by Fola Adeleke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the international investment law regime in Africa and provides a comprehensive analysis of the current treaty practices in Africa from global, regional and domestic perspectives. It develops a public interest regulation theory to highlight the role of investment regulation in sustainable development and the protection of human rights. In doing so, the book identifies seven factors that should be considered by arbitrators in resolving international investment disputes that affect the public interest. It considers how corporations can be held accountable through investment treaties in the absence of a global treaty on business and human rights while protecting the rights of investors and their investments. Furthermore, the book explores the current objectives and features of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) as well as the deficiencies and its intersection with the rule of law. It identifies alternatives for ISDS and the extent to which these alternatives address the objectives of attracting investment, depoliticise investment disputes, promote the rule of law and offer remedies to investors. These solutions are offered in relation to the protection of human rights, the promotion of sustainable development and the right of states to introduce domestic public interest regulation. Finally, the book takes a prospective stance and discusses future trends for dispute settlement and investment rulemaking in Africa.
Download or read book Digital Africa written by Jesper Drescher and published by Jesper Drescher. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Impact investing" is one of the biggest buzzwords in finance today, touted as investing with the intention of generating positive and measurable social and environmental change in addition to monetary returns. Putting money into projects, businesses, and places that improve the lives of the people living there in addition to strengthening your investment portfolio sounds great...but there are plenty of pitfalls as well. One of the most inspiring locations for impact investing, but also one of the most misunderstood by the foreign investor, is sub-Saharan Africa.In Digital Africa, Jesper Drescher, a successful investor in the African tech scene since 2013 and the chairman of three African tech companies, explains the potential and the perils of investing in sub-Saharan Africa. He goes into depth on what a potential investor needs to understand about sub-Saharan Africa before deciding to do business there: where the benefits and downsides, both evident and understated, lie; the special issues surrounding business creation, taxation, and hiring; and the dangers of letting the hype run away with your expectations. Most of all, Drescher outlines how digitalization is the key to creating the biggest impact possible with your time and money.Whether it takes the form of digital money for people without access to formal banking, the increased ability for governments to collect taxes, or improving healthcare outcomes with minable data, digitalization is one the rise in sub-Saharan Africa. With Digital Africa as your guide to tech investment, your chances of making a real impact as an investor are on the rise.
Download or read book Dead Aid written by Dambisa Moyo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.
Download or read book 101 Ways to Make Money in Africa written by John-Paul Iwuoha & and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comment investir efficacement en Afrique written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Septembre 2011 Note servant de base de discussion sur l'investissement étranger dans les domaines des terres agricoles et de l'eau Préparé pour le séminaire, « Comment investir efficacement en Afrique », 21-22 Juillet 2011, organisé par le Parlement Panafricain en collaboration avec l'Institut International du développement durable (IIDD) et l'Institut pour les Etudes sur la pauvreté, la terre et [...] Elle a dirigé le bureau de Genève de l'Institut pour la politique agricole et commerciale (IATP) où elle suivait les négociations de l'OMC, rédigeait le bulletin bimestriel Geneva Update, et donnait des informations et analyses sur les questions agricoles aux négociateurs commerciaux et aux groupes de la société civile des pays en développement. [...] La recherche comprend des informations sur l'ampleur et la taille des transactions foncières, les pays cibles, les pays investisseurs, la nature des contrats entre Etats et investisseurs, le type d'investisseurs du secteur privé, notamment les souscriptions privées et des fonds spéculatifs, L'impact des droits sociaux, économiques et humains sur les communautés, ainsi que les types de réaction, no [...] Dans une étude de cas, des dirigeants communautaires dans la province de Gaza, au Mozambique, ont accepté de fournir des terres à des investisseurs extérieurs, mais le résultat a été que les femmes ont perdu l'accès aux ressources forestières et hydriques essentielles à la subsistance de leurs familles. [...] Cela comprend l'ensemble des lois et règlements relatifs à l'admission des investissements étrangers, aux incitations, à la fiscalité, au droit sur la propriété, aux droits relatifs à l'eau et à son coût, à la santé et la sécurité humaines, à la protection de l'environnement, au droit du travail et à toute autre loi relative à des incidences possibles sur les communautés locales.
