Amit Jain: How safe is it doing business in Africa?

12min | 11/05/2025

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How often do policies change? Are currency risks involved? These are questions every investor seeks answers to, given how crucial they are to investing and creating added value. Amit Jain heads the NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies, a Singapore-based center whose mission is to study Africa’s investment prospects and risks, collect data, and share it freely. In this episode, recorded during the Africa Investment Forum 2024, he invites us to look at Africa with fresh eyes: “It is no longer the Africa of the 1980s. This is a completely new renaissance for the continent.”

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About Making a Difference

Did you know that Africa, with 65% of the world's remaining arable land, could become the planet's breadbasket? That the continent is the key to unlocking green growth across the planet, owing to its almost unlimited solar energy potential, vast hydrogen resources and immense reserves of green minerals that are vital for the production of Lithium ion batteries? Did you know that Africa could transform the world with its 2.5 billion inhabitants by 2050?
Discover what's happening on this fast-moving continent in the Making a Difference podcast. It brings together economists, opinion leaders, captains of industry and heads of international institutions to explore the most critical challenges of today.

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

About Making a Difference

Did you know that Africa, with 65% of the world's remaining arable land, could become the planet's breadbasket? That the continent is the key to unlocking green growth across the planet, owing to its almost unlimited solar energy potential, vast hydrogen resources and immense reserves of green minerals that are vital for the production of Lithium ion batteries? Did you know that Africa could transform the world with its 2.5 billion inhabitants by 2050?
Discover what's happening on this fast-moving continent in the Making a Difference podcast. It brings together economists, opinion leaders, captains of industry and heads of international institutions to explore the most critical challenges of today.

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Description

How often do policies change? Are currency risks involved? These are questions every investor seeks answers to, given how crucial they are to investing and creating added value. Amit Jain heads the NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies, a Singapore-based center whose mission is to study Africa’s investment prospects and risks, collect data, and share it freely. In this episode, recorded during the Africa Investment Forum 2024, he invites us to look at Africa with fresh eyes: “It is no longer the Africa of the 1980s. This is a completely new renaissance for the continent.”

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

About Making a Difference

Did you know that Africa, with 65% of the world's remaining arable land, could become the planet's breadbasket? That the continent is the key to unlocking green growth across the planet, owing to its almost unlimited solar energy potential, vast hydrogen resources and immense reserves of green minerals that are vital for the production of Lithium ion batteries? Did you know that Africa could transform the world with its 2.5 billion inhabitants by 2050?
Discover what's happening on this fast-moving continent in the Making a Difference podcast. It brings together economists, opinion leaders, captains of industry and heads of international institutions to explore the most critical challenges of today.

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

About Making a Difference

Did you know that Africa, with 65% of the world's remaining arable land, could become the planet's breadbasket? That the continent is the key to unlocking green growth across the planet, owing to its almost unlimited solar energy potential, vast hydrogen resources and immense reserves of green minerals that are vital for the production of Lithium ion batteries? Did you know that Africa could transform the world with its 2.5 billion inhabitants by 2050?
Discover what's happening on this fast-moving continent in the Making a Difference podcast. It brings together economists, opinion leaders, captains of industry and heads of international institutions to explore the most critical challenges of today.

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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