From Rev Doors to Trap Doors: One Good Turn for Africa’s Development Financing Melvin Ayogu & Tendai Gwatidzo Standard Bank Group & University of Witwatersrand, South Africa 28 March 2010 The views here do not represent those of Standard Bank Group 1
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From Rev Doors to Trap Doors: One Good Turn for Africa’s
Development Financing
Melvin Ayogu & Tendai Gwatidzo
Standard Bank Group & University of Witwatersrand,
South Africa
28 March 2010
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Main Points
• Consequences of Capital Flight
• What we are doing• What can you do?
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Context
• Flight of “people’s money” is serious
• But seriousness does not thereby imply policymakers care enough to curb the problem
• Depends on linkage between consequences of asset stripping and political fortunes of policymakers
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As men have learned to shoot without missing, so have birds have learned to
fly without perching−Crime should not pay−Acquire competency in process
of asset recovery just as “they have become adept at stripping”
−International Cooperation [leverage StAR, Basle Institute for Governance, GFI]
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Development Financing Issues
• Colour of Money (form of financing)• Ideology of Resource Gaps: Aid &
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Table 1: African Flows
1980 1990 2000 2005 2008e ODA (All donors to Africa in USD billion) 10.42 25.08 15.58 35.53 40.00 FDI in USD billion 0.40 2.81 9.69 29.65 61.90 Private capital flows, net(USD billion) -0.38 3.78 -3.48 27.42 54.73 Remittances* (USD billion) 1.40 1.86 4.62 9.97 20.42 Total External Public Debt ( USD billion) 85.10 228.90 237.05 239.27 n.a Total debt service: interest and amortization paid (USD billion) 18.19 30.28 29.42 38.93 33.00
Source : ODA Data extracted from OECD.Stat ; World economic outlook ,October 2008; AFDB Database and World Bank staff estimates based on the International Monetary Fund's Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook 2008 (Remittances) e: Estimates ; * Sub-Saharan Africa
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Intra-Africa Flows
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Figure 1
East - 16.91%Southern - 76.17%Central - 0.10%
West - 0.14%North - 1.64%Rest - 5.26%
Intra-African Foreign InvestmentSouth Africa Inflow Year 2000
East - 30.65%Southern - 53.80%Central - 0.41%
West - 10.35%North - 0.03%Rest - 4.76%
Intra-African Foreign InvestmentSouth Africa Outflow Year 2000
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Figure 2
East - 9.41%Southern - 85.04%Central - 0.03%
West - 1.09%North - 0.31%Rest - 4.11%
Intra-African Foreign InvestmentSouth Africa Inflow Year 2004
East - 30.36%Southern - 49.18%Central - 0.12%
West - 15.39%North - 0.01%Rest - 4.94%
Intra-African Foreign InvestmentSouth Africa Outflow Year 2004
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East - 9.41%Southern - 85.04%Central - 0.03%
West - 1.09%North - 0.31%Rest - 4.11%
Intra-African Foreign InvestmentSouth Africa Inflow Year 2004
East - 30.36%Southern - 49.18%Central - 0.12%
West - 15.39%North - 0.01%Rest - 4.94%
Intra-African Foreign InvestmentSouth Africa Outflow Year 2004
Figure 4
East - 10.02%Southern - 70.66%Central - 0.31%
West - 1.60%North - 0.67%Rest - 16.74%
Intra-African Foreign InvestmentSouth Africa Inflow Year 2007
East - 33.69%Southern - 24.97%Central - 1.80%
West - 31.52%North - 0.84%Rest - 7.19%
Intra-African Foreign InvestmentSouth Africa Outflow Year 2007
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Opportunity to Upscale
• If flight capital can be stemmed, the trend in figures 1 2 3 shows potential benefits to regional investment flows
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Evening befriends the Spider
• www.CapitalConservator.com
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Forum for sharing ideas: on line meetings, Web conferencing, message board
Easy way of managing information: have different topics of discussions
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Maintain information sharing ethics: every one who joins must agree to terms and conditions. People join by invites only (to avoid abuse). Initial group should be ICAS participants
Members of the network/community to find each other: knowing who else belongs to the community
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