{"id":3413,"date":"2016-02-09T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T13:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rikardsvendsen.com\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2017-03-09T14:08:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T14:08:13","slug":"explaing-the-market-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rikardsvendsen.com\/explaing-the-market-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Explain The Market \/ Invest in African Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Interview about why UK companies should invest\u00a0in African.<!--more--><\/h2>\n<p>I was asked by Guy Shone, MD of Explain The Market, to comment on why UK companies should invest\u00a0in\u00a0African. Here&#8217;s what I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China has intensified its investment across the African continent contributing to a global capital investment of US$128B, up 136% on previous year. Not wanting to be left behind, the UK has taken a fresh look at the worlds&#8217; fastest growing economy. They have realised that the Africa of today, no \u00a0longer wants aid or charity but instead craves highly technical and innovative solutions to provide basic services to its 1.1 billion people. Companies specialising in renewable energy, telecommunications, financial services, health, education and agriculture have seen the potential to not only make millions in profit but also improve the lives of millions of African people &#8211; all at the same time. And it\u2019s this \u2018win-win\u2019 that makes investing in Africa so attractive to UK companies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.explainthemarket.com\/blog\/2017\/1\/8\/the-cotswolds-forming-economic-linkswith-africa\" target=\"_blank\">Full article<\/a>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Interview about why UK companies should invest\u00a0in African.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Explain The Market \/ Invest in African Interview - Rikard Svendsen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rikardsvendsen.com\/explaing-the-market-africa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Explain The Market \/ Invest in African Interview - 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