The Development Finance
Institution Challenge Map
The Solution
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To change the status quo in the
short-term, we shall identify viable
North American equity partners for Africa's
investment-grade entities
The Challenge
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Africa attracts
less than 5 percent
of aggregate global
direct investment*
The Products
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Advisory on establishing North American
business development and sales pipelines
for Africa's foremost developing finance
institutions
The Ideal
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Infusion of long-term North American
capital investments in Africa's key
national or regional projects
Note
According to the World Bank, Africa only attracted 1 percent of global FDI inflows in 2000.
By 2018, these figures had grown to about 3 percent by 2018. Our 5 percent figure is an average
from the twenty years between 2000 and 2019. During the COVID-19 pandemic, UNCTAD forecast
that FDI flows to the continent would contract between 25 percent and 40 percent based on
various investment determinants, including GDP growth projections.
Africa's Top Five sources of FDI in 2020 were: Netherlands, France,
the United Kingdom, the United States, and China.