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Why do Business in Africa? (Online Bachelor of Science)


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State of the African Economy. Doing Business in Africa (Bachelor of Science in Inter-African Business e-learning)

Bachelor of Science in Inter-African Business 

Why do Business in Africa?

“The future of humanity is becoming more African” (UNICEF).

  1. In thirty-five years, 25% of the world's population will be African
  2. Africa will lead the World population growth over the next fifty years
  3. 50% of the African population will live in a city (2040)
  4. Population of Nigeria in 2100: 1 billion Nigerians
  5. African demographic dividend

Online Bachelor: African Population

Students, Online Bachelor of Science, Business

African Economy

  1. Nigeria is the largest African Economy followed by South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, Angola, Morocco, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia..
  2. The Leading the African economic sectors are agriculture (25% of the GDP) and services
  3. African manufacturing sector: only 10% of the African GDP
  4. African women are one of the pillars of Africa's economic development (70 percent of the agricultural labour force)
  5. E African Mobile Revolution
  6. Africa: emerging continent or next “frontier market”?
    1. Nigeria: world's first frontier market

Isabel dos Santos, Angolan Businesswoman, Richest African Women (Angola)

Intra-African Trade

African Union vision: to increase the intra-African trade up to 25% (currently 10%) through the regional integration. The action plan to stimulate intra-African trade.

The ultimate objective is to create the African common market “The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)” (one billion people, a combined GDP of $ 1.2 trillion) made up of fifty-four African countries.

Online Bachelor: African Continental Free Trade Area

  1. Key role of the Regional Economic Communities (RECs)
  2. African products have an “EXW” competitive cost, but the distribution process in Africa (transport and logistics, handling, customs, stockage...) increases the final price generating a loss of competitiveness
  3. Too many barriers to the Intra-African Trade (Export Diversification, lack of infrastructures, Technical Barriers to Trade, cross-border trade, customs...)
  4. African Development Bank estimates that the cost of transporting a container from Durban (South Africa) to Lusaka (Zambia) - 1,633 kilometers is 8,000 dollars while costing only 1,800 from Durban to Japan
  5. One - stop border posts can help to reduce the custom's clearance times on the African borders. For example, on the border between Uganda and Kenya (Malaba), the border crossing has been reduced from 24 hours (2011) to 4 hours (2012)
  6. Importance of the African Value Chains
  7. Delays in the African customs: twelve days (in Central Asia: six days)
  8. Financial systems in Africa are limited and not sufficiently regionally integrated, resulting in high transaction costs and high levels of risk.
    1. One of the pillars of the African financial system is the cross-border banking sector

African International Trade

  1. Nearly 80% of the African exports are exported outside Africa
  2. Africa, the factory of the world?
  3. Asia is Africa's third largest export market (26% of the total African international trade). The main exports are commodities
  4. China is the first export market of Africa (50% of total African exports: fuel and natural resources). China is the first investor in Africa.
    India: 25% of the total exports of the African products, Brazil 13%, South Africa 11% and Russia 1%
  5. Africa-BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) trade: 500 billion dollars
  6. The main exported products by the BRICS countries to Africa are manufactured products (mainly from China) and food products (mainly from Brazil)

Africa-BRICS Countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. Trade Relations

Landlocked African Countries

Fifteen African countries do not have access to the sea: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Eswatini, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

  1. High logistics costs (up to 77%)
  2. Solution: African transport corridors
  3. Africa needs 93 billion dollars (15% of the African GDP) in infrastructure investments

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