The Country
Advisory Challenge Map
The Solution
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To leverage current trade promotion and
capacity building programs, as well as preferential market
access trade policy to close the information & cultural
distance between North American capital
and opportunities in African nations.
The Challenge
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Africa attracts
less than 0.8 percent
of United States direct
investment abroad*
The Products
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Advisory on designing engagement
programs between public and private
institutions on both side of the Atlantic;
including third-party governance
indicator tools
The Ideal
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Significant improvements in the quality
of corporate governance across the continent
based on the strength of institutional and regulatory
frameworks. This has been affirmed by
the law of economic regulation**
Notes
* In 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that
the cumulative/historical United States direct investment abroad had reached
US$ 6.15 trillion, with over 70 percent going to western Europe.
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While countries like China, Japan, and Singapore attracted individual USDIA of
between US$ 100 billion and US$ 250 billion, all fifty-five Member States of the
African Union together drew in less than US$ 46 billion in USDIA.
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** According to George Stigler, economic regulation focuses on those that
benefit from, or are burdened by regulation. Empirical evidence has proven that
when American investment goes into less developed nations, the quality
of institutional or microeconomic facets improves.