【全非资讯·非洲】Africa: From Capital to Prosperity

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非洲并不缺乏工业雄心。它缺乏的是将雄心转化为工厂的金融机制。\n\n几十年来，非洲的经济困境一直是通过其似乎缺乏的东西来描述的：基础设施、工业能力、技能、技术、外国投资。\n\n看待这个问题还有另一种方式。\n\n非洲并不缺乏工业化规划。它也不缺乏愿意建设的企业家、渴望吸引工厂的政府，或是准备购买其产品的消费者。在许多地方，它缺乏的是一种不太引人注目但更为根本的东西：一个能够以工业化所需的规模、成本和周期来资助转型的金融体系。\n\n工厂在投入生产之前是昂贵的。一条铁路在运载足够抵消其建设成本的货物之前，需要消耗多年的资金。发电厂必须在它所供应的机器开始生产任何东西之前获得资金。港口、冷藏设施、纺织厂和加工厂都有一个共同的不便特性：它们要求今天投入巨资，而回报可能在很久之后才会到来。\n\n这使得工业化在核心上成为一个金融问题。\n\n这也解释了非洲经济长期存在的矛盾之一。

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工厂在投产前成本高昂。铁路项目在能够运载足够货物以证明其建设合理性之前，往往需要数年时间来吸收大量资金。发电厂必须先获得融资，其所供电的机器才能开始生产任何产品。港口、冷库设施、纺织厂和加工厂都具有一个共同的不便之处：它们今天需要投入巨额资金，以换取可能在很久以后才能实现的收益。



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Africa has no shortage of industrial ambition. What it lacks is the financial machinery to turn ambition into factories.

For decades, Africa’s economic predicament has been described through the things it appears to lack: infrastructure, industrial capacity, skills, technology, foreign investment.

There is another way of looking at the problem.

Africa does not suffer from a shortage of plans to industrialise. Nor does it lack entrepreneurs willing to build, governments eager to attract factories or consumers ready to buy what they produce. What it lacks, in many places, is something less visible but more fundamental: a financial system capable of financing transformation on the scale, at the cost and over the period that industrialisation requires.

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A factory is expensive before it is productive. A railway absorbs capital for years before it carries enough freight to justify its construction. A power plant must be financed before the machines it supplies can begin producing anything at all. Ports, cold-storage facilities, textile mills and processing plants share the same inconvenient characteristic: they demand large sums of money today in exchange for returns that may arrive only much later.

That makes industrialisation, at its core, a question of finance.

And it helps explain one of the enduring contradictions of the African economy.

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