INTO AFRICA October 2019 Edition – Charting Africa’s Business Terrain

Welcome to the October 2019 edition of INTO AFRICA, a publication written by the professionals, for professionals, investors, policymakers … Advancing and providing fresh insight into Africa’s emerging markets through renowned thought leadership and peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing. The edition is titled: Charting Africa’s Business Terrain.

Africa’s business potential is tremendous and in various sectors, including energy, infrastructure, agriculture, natural resources, and information and communications, offering opportunities for investors. However, these business opportunities come with many challenges to doing business – which are not differ from other continents. The question is how to balance risk, reward, and regret, as there are massive opportunities for growth across the continent. Also, the perceived risk is often exceeded real risk and doing business environment is improving rapidly in several countries such as Mauritius, Rwanda, Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya all offering ease in doing business through conducive environments and incentives.  In the World Bank Group’s 2019 Doing Business Report, Mauritius remains the leader in the ease of doing business rankings in Africa as its ranking progressed from 25th to 20th, for the first time an African country to join other economies in the top twenty rankings worldwide

Opening the discourse, BARNABY FLETCHER (Associate Director, Control Risks) examines the risk and reward of investment in Africa. He pointed out that change is occurring, and this is creating new investment opportunities, as the economic role of the state is shrinking as countries. In parallel, CELESTE FAUCONNIER (Sub-Saharan Africa Economist, Rand Merchant Bank South Africa) looks at where to invest in Africa in 2020 and she identified these six key sectors: resources, retail, finance, ICT, manufacturing, and construction. Besides, GUILLAUME ARDITTI (Founding Partner, Belvedere Africa Partners Paris) postulates that African institutional investors (such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds) are key to close the continent’s financing gaps.

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