Sangu Delle: In praise of macro -- yes, macro -- finance in Africa
桑谷·德尔: 从宏观 — 没错是宏观 — 的角度解决非洲金融问题
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.
在非洲并非那么管用。
in African development-related aid
is lower than it was in the 1970s.
比上世纪70年代还要低。
the IMF and the World Bank --
国际货币基金组织和世界银行
shows little empirical evidence
自由贸易会促进非洲的经济增长。
silver bullet is microcredit.
on this romanticized idea
is an entrepreneur.
in 40-plus countries across Africa
工作和旅途的经验告诉我，
want jobs instead.
且将小额贷款放一边。
pan-African titans
泛非洲的“巨无霸” （大型企业）
he founded Celtel International in '98
成立了Celtel 国际公司，
cellular provider
across 14 African countries by 2004.
服务覆盖非洲14个国家。
than the everyman entrepreneur model,
易卜拉欣的创业模式也许较优。
of diffusion and knowledge-sharing.
有效的融合手段和知识共享。
leads to growth through competition.
和小型企业竞争而取得。
to each of 500 banana farmers
每人贷200美元，
their surplus bananas
at the local market.
to one savvy entrepreneur
给一个精明的企业家，
that yields 40 percent additional income
足以给那500个种植香蕉的农民，
and creates 50 additional jobs.
同时又创造了50个就业岗位。
Kenyan entrepreneur Eric Muthomi
Eric Muthomi 给予了投资，
factory called Stawi
banana-based flour and baby food.
以香蕉为主的面粉和婴儿食品。
采用现代加工生产模式，
to create value for not only its owners
an ownership in the business.
让他成为又一位 “易卜拉欣 “。
and try to help him become a Mo Ibrahim,
local and global partnerships,
资金、地区与全球范围的合作、
during the Berlin Conference of 1884 --
were not exactly consulted --
就没有被征询过——
with small populations:
Cape Verde, 500,000.
佛得角，50万人口。
with trade barriers and other impediments,
还有各种贸易壁垒和其它障碍。
across the continent
争夺非洲、划下国界前，
在非洲大陆到处进行贸易。
outweigh the challenges,
Stawi's markets from just Kenya
将 Stawi 的市场扩张到阿尔及利亚、
and anywhere else that will buy our food.
所有会购买我们的食物的地方。
empower farmers, create jobs,
改善农民生活，创造就业机会，
and we hope to become rich in the process.
achieve the same feel-good
给别人买山羊相比，
to buy a goat on kiva.org,
higher-impact entrepreneurs
that scale pan-Africa
使其能够与泛非洲匹配，
for which our forebearers fought
如果没有经济自由，就会变得徒劳。
如果没有经济自由，就会变得徒劳。
for economic freedom
so desperately need,
this is strong rhetoric.
between microcredit
不断增长的普通投资手段有天壤之别。
and growing regular investment.
不断增长的普通投资手段有天壤之别。
a role for microcredit at all?
innovative way
to the bottom of the pyramid.
扩大金融活动的门槛。
at the Marshall Plan
而制定的马歇尔计划，
而制定的马歇尔计划，
and we need jobs.
需要更多的就业岗位。
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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