Digital Africa: Investing in Africa's Most Untapped Source (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788797267608)

If You Want To Invest, Start A Business, Maximize Your Impact, And Make Money In Africa. This Book Is The Perfect Guide Impact investing is one of the biggest buzzwords in finance today, touted as investing with the intention of generating positive and measurable social and environmental change in addition to monetary returns. Putting money into projects, businesses, and places that improve the lives of the people living there in addition to strengthening your investment portfolio sounds great...but there are plenty of pitfalls as well. One of the most inspiring locations for impact investing, but also one of the most misunderstood by the foreign investor, is sub-Saharan Africa.In Digital Africa, Jesper Drescher, a successful investor in the African tech scene since 2013 and the chairman of three African tech companies, explains the potential and the perils of investing in sub-Saharan Africa. He goes into depth on what a potential investor needs to understand about sub-Saharan Africa before deciding to do business there: where the benefits and downsides, both evident and understated, lie; the special issues surrounding business creation, taxation, and hiring; and the dangers of letting the hype run away with your expectations. Most of all, Drescher outlines how digitalization is the key to creating the biggest impact possible with your time and money.Whether it takes the form of digital money for people without access to formal banking, the increased ability for governments to collect taxes, or improving healthcare outcomes with minable data, digitalization is one the rise in sub-Saharan Africa. With Digital Africa as your guide to tech investment, your chances of making a real impact as an investor are on the rise.

Author: Jesper Drescher
ISBN-10: 8797267600
ISBN-13: 9788797267608
Publisher: Jesper Drescher
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2020
Pages: 172
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.37d