【全非资讯·加纳】 非洲为华盛顿带去商业交易：考验在于资金能否到位

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华盛顿——首届非洲商业投资峰会（Africa Business Investment Summit）设定了5亿美元的结构性承诺资金目标，迎来了皇室主旨演讲，并对资本为何至今仍在观望进行了罕见而坦诚的剖析。\n\nOtumfuo Osei Tutu II发言刚满五分钟，便提出了全天会议试图解答的问题。这位Asantehene（阿散蒂国王）望向宴会厅，质问鉴于刚刚为这片大陆宣称的种种优势，为何非洲至今仍未发达。\n\n在一个旨在解答此问题的峰会上提出这样一个问题，着实引人深思。首届非洲商业投资峰会于8月27日至28日在马里兰州奥克森希尔的MGM国家港湾举行，由千禧卓越基金会（Millennium Excellence Foundation）在他的赞助下召集，汇聚了500多名代表。加纳贸易、农业综合企业与工业部副部长Sampson Ahi表示，该峰会被设计为一个交易促成平台，在这里，讨论必须引导至资本，资本引导至企业。\n\n组织者带来了约40亿美元的投资机遇，并设定了一个相对较小的目标：在代表们回家之前，签署至少5亿美元的谅解备忘录和意向书等结构性承诺。\n\nAhi代表加纳总统John Dramani Mahama发言，通报了加纳的进展，为当天的讨论奠定了基调。他报告称，通货膨胀率从2024年12月的23.8%下降到一年后的5.4%，并在2026年7月进一步降至4.6%。2025年GDP增长6%，为2019年以来最快增速，非石油经济增长率达到7.6%，创十四年新高。外国直接投资达到26.2亿美元。\n\n最后一个数字是注册登记额。国际收支平衡表则讲述了一个更为微妙的故事。按此标准计算，净外国直接投资为19.1亿美元，其中95.4%来自再投资收益，这意味着真正从海外流入的新资金大约只有8,800万美元左右。已经身处加纳的投资者选择留下来并不断扩大规模，而说服新投资者跨过门槛则是更难解决的问题。\n\n这也是接下来的几乎每一场会议都在争论的问题。\n\n美国进出口银行（Export-Import Bank of the United States）前行长兼董事长Reta Jo Lewis发表了最为务实的见解。她表示，在她领导该机构的三年生涯中，其非洲业务组合从2022年的1.09亿美元跃升至2023和2024年创纪录的36亿美元授权额。限制因素很少是资本，而是准备就绪度。

Africa Brought Deals to Washington - The Test is Whether the Money Moves




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Washington, DC — The inaugural Africa Business Investment Summit saw a target of $500m of structured commitments, a royal keynote and an unusually candid accounting of why capital still hesitates.

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II had been speaking for barely five minutes when he put the question the rest of the day would attempt to answer. The Asantehene looked out at the ballroom and asked why, given everything that had just been claimed for the continent, Africa is still not developed.

It was a striking thing to ask at a summit built to answer it. The Africa Business Investment Summit, convened for the first time by the Millennium Excellence Foundation under his patronage, gathered more than 500 delegates at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on 27 and 28 August. It was designed, in the words of Ghana's Deputy Minister for Trade, Agribusiness and Industry, Sampson Ahi, as a deal-making arena, one in which discussion must lead to capital, capital to enterprise, and ent

The organisers arrived with roughly $4 billion of opportunities and set themselves a smaller test: at least $500m in structured commitments, signed as memoranda of understanding and letters of intent before the delegates go home.

Speaking for President John Dramani Mahama, Ahi set the scene for the day's discussions with an update on Ghana's progress. He reported inflation down from 23.8% in December 2024 to 5.4% a year later, and 4.6% by July 2026. GDP grew 6% in 2025, the fastest since 2019, with non-oil growth at 7.6%, the highest in fourteen years. Foreign direct investment reached $2.62bn.

That last number is the registration figure. The balance of payments tells a subtler story. Net foreign direct investment on that measure was $1.91bn, and 95.4% of it came from reinvested earnings, leaving something in the order of $88m of genuinely new money arriving from abroad. Investors already in Ghana are staying and expanding. Persuading new ones through the door is the harder problem.

It is also the problem almost every session that followed was arguing about.

Reta Jo Lewis, the former president and chair of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, gave the most practical account. During her three years leading the agency, she said, its Africa portfolio went from $109m in 2022 to a record $3.6bn in authorisations across 2023 and 2024. The constraint was rarely capital. It was readiness.

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