Sangu Delle: In praise of macro -- yes, macro -- finance in Africa
桑穀·德爾: 從宏觀——沒錯是宏觀——的角度來解決非洲的金融問題
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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in Africa are not working very well.
在非洲並非那麽管用。
in African development-related aid
is lower than it was in the 1970s.
比上世紀 70 年代還要低。
the IMF and the World Bank --
國際貨幣基金組織和世界銀行
shows little empirical evidence
自由貿易會促進非洲的經濟增長。
silver bullet is microcredit.
on this romanticized idea
is an entrepreneur.
in 40-plus countries across Africa
工作和旅途的經驗告訴我，
want jobs instead.
且將小額貸款放一邊。
pan-African titans
泛非洲的「巨無霸」 （大型企業）
he founded Celtel International in '98
成立了Celtel 國際公司，
cellular provider
across 14 African countries by 2004.
服務覆蓋非洲14個國家。
than the everyman entrepreneur model,
易卜拉欣的創業模式也許較優。
of diffusion and knowledge-sharing.
有效的融合手段和知識共享。
leads to growth through competition.
和小型企業競爭而取得。
to each of 500 banana farmers
每人貸200美元，
their surplus bananas
at the local market.
to one savvy entrepreneur
給一個精明的企業家，
that yields 40 percent additional income
足以給那500個種植香蕉的農民，
and creates 50 additional jobs.
同時又創造了50個就業崗位。
Kenyan entrepreneur Eric Muthomi
Eric Muthomi 給予了投資，
factory called Stawi
banana-based flour and baby food.
以香蕉爲主的麵粉和嬰兒食品。
採用現代加工生産模式，
to create value for not only its owners
an ownership in the business.
讓他成爲又一位 「易卜拉欣 」。
and try to help him become a Mo Ibrahim,
local and global partnerships,
資金、地區與全球範圍的合作、
during the Berlin Conference of 1884 --
were not exactly consulted --
就沒有被徵詢過——
with small populations:
Cape Verde, 500,000.
維德角，50萬人口。
with trade barriers and other impediments,
還有各種貿易壁壘和其它障礙。
across the continent
爭奪非洲、劃下國界前，
就在非洲大陸到處進行貿易。
outweigh the challenges,
Stawi's markets from just Kenya
將 Stawi 的市場擴張到阿爾及利亞、
and anywhere else that will buy our food.
所有會購買我們的食物的地方。
empower farmers, create jobs,
改善農民生活，創造就業機會，
and we hope to become rich in the process.
achieve the same feel-good
給別人買山羊相比，
to buy a goat on kiva.org,
higher-impact entrepreneurs
that scale pan-Africa
使其能够與泛非洲匹配，
for which our forebearers fought
如果沒有經濟自由，就會變得徒勞。
如果沒有經濟自由，就會變得徒勞。
for economic freedom
so desperately need,
this is strong rhetoric.
between microcredit
不斷增長的普通投資手段有天壤之別。
and growing regular investment.
不斷增長的普通投資手段有天壤之別。
a role for microcredit at all?
innovative way
to the bottom of the pyramid.
擴大金融活動的門檻。
at the Marshall Plan
而制定的歐洲復興計劃，
而制定的歐洲復興計劃，
and we need jobs.
需要更多的就業崗位。
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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