Sangu Delle: In praise of macro -- yes, macro -- finance in Africa
サング・デリ: アフリカにおける「マクロ」ファイナンス礼賛
Sangu Delle is an entrepreneur and clean water activist. A TED Fellow who hails from Ghana, he sees incredible potential in the African economy. Full bio
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アフリカではあまり機能していません
in Africa are not working very well.
in African development-related aid
is lower than it was in the 1970s.
1970年代よりも低いのです
the IMF and the World Bank --
国際通貨基金（IMF）や世界銀行は
shows little empirical evidence
自由貿易が経済成長をもたらしたと
silver bullet is microcredit.
マイクロクレジットです
on this romanticized idea
is an entrepreneur.
私たちは執着しているように見えます
in 40-plus countries across Africa
仕事し 旅行してきましたが
want jobs instead.
pan-African titans
汎アフリカの巨人を作ることに
he founded Celtel International in '98
98年にセルテル・インターナショナルを起業し
cellular provider
2400万人の加入者を抱える
across 14 African countries by 2004.
than the everyman entrepreneur model,
拡散や知識共有の効果的手法を妨げる
of diffusion and knowledge-sharing.
良かったかもしれません
leads to growth through competition.
段階ではありません
to each of 500 banana farmers
200ドルずつ貸し
their surplus bananas
at the local market.
得られるようにする
to one savvy entrepreneur
１人の優秀な起業家に与え
that yields 40 percent additional income
500人のバナナ農家全てに40％多い所得と
and creates 50 additional jobs.
Kenyan entrepreneur Eric Muthomi
エリック・ムトミが
factory called Stawi
banana-based flour and baby food.
粉とベビーフードの製造を支援しました
to create value for not only its owners
工場主だけではなく
an ownership in the business.
価値を生み出すように利用しました
and try to help him become a Mo Ibrahim,
次のモー・イブラヒムになる支援をすることです
local and global partnerships,
地域や世界的なパートナーシップ
during the Berlin Conference of 1884 --
アフリカの奪い合いの場で
were not exactly consulted --
まったく相談されず－
with small populations:
Cape Verde, 500,000.
カーボベルデ 50万人
with trade barriers and other impediments,
貿易障壁やその他の障害があります
across the continent
ヨーロッパ人が線を引くまでは
outweigh the challenges,
Stawi's markets from just Kenya
アルジェリア、ナイジェリア、ガーナ
and anywhere else that will buy our food.
あらゆる地域に広げている理由です
empower farmers, create jobs,
農家の地位向上 ならびに雇用創出
and we hope to become rich in the process.
同時に繁栄したいのです
achieve the same feel-good
to buy a goat on kiva.org,
満足感もないかもしれませんが
higher-impact entrepreneurs
that scale pan-Africa
for which our forebearers fought
政治的自由は
for economic freedom
so desperately need,
this is strong rhetoric.
素晴らしく説得力のあるスピーチだった
between microcredit
and growing regular investment.
a role for microcredit at all?
役割はあると思うかい？
innovative way
革新的な方法であり
to the bottom of the pyramid.
資金調達の間口を広げてくれる
at the Marshall Plan
and we need jobs.
仕事が必要なのです
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sangu Delle - EntrepreneurSangu Delle is an entrepreneur and clean water activist. A TED Fellow who hails from Ghana, he sees incredible potential in the African economy.
Why you should listen
Born in Ghana, Sangu Delle's childhood home was a refuge for victims of torture and violence from neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone. Delle graduated from Harvard College with highest honors in African Studies and Economics. He was awarded the Soros Fellowship and pursued a Juris Doctor of Law and MBA at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, respectively.
At Harvard, enrolling in the Social Engagement Initiative program that bridged the academic study and practical service gap, Delle co-founded cleanacwa (formerly the African Development Initiative) in 2007, which today is currently working to bring clean water and sanitation to over 200,000 people in 160 villages in the Ayensuano, Suhum and Nandom districts in Ghana. Delle is also passionate about mental health and wellness, and was a founding member of Harvard University’s Mental Health Alumni Special Interest Group.
Delle has previously worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Valiant Capital Partners. Convinced that the real needs of communities can best be met through entrepreneurship, in 2008 he founded an investment holding company, Golden Palm Investments(GPI) to fund promising start-ups that can have social impact and generate jobs. GPI has backed technology startups such as Andela, Flutterwave and mPharma. GPI has also built a portfolio of greenfield companies in healthcare, agriculture and financial services. Delle serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GPI.
Delle has received several international accolades including being named a 2016 finalist for “Young CEO of the Year” by the Africa CEO Forum, Africa’s “Young Person of the Year” in 2014 by the Future Africa Awards, selected as a 2014 TEDGlobal Fellow, Forbes’ top 30 most promising entrepreneurs in Africa and Euromoney’s “Africa’s Rising Stars” award. Institut Choiseul and Forbes Afrique named Delle as one of the top “100 Economic Leaders in Africa” in 2015. Mic named Delle as one of 9 entrepreneurs in the millennial generation making a difference.
Delle is a Trustee of the Peddie School in NJ and serves on the Advisory Board and chairs the Leadership Council of Harvard University’s Center for African Studies. He also serves on the inaugural West Africa Advisory Group of the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University.
Delle loves the outdoors and trekked Mount Everest in 2013 and summited Kilimanjaro during the summer of 2015.
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