Silicon Valley and Bay Area of San Francisco, California, USA
Professional qualifications in the areas of Advising, and Consulting on projects in South European and North African countries.
Habiba Cherkaoui has also visited and is knowledgeable about the various cultures in North Africa, Western Europe, and Japan as well as of many places in the United States of America.
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English, French, Arabic, and Amazigh Fluencies.
Mentoring, Coaching, Training, Advising, and Consulting about Startups, Ecosystems, Applications Development, and Services-oriented business and entrepreneurial operations and management.
Implementation of the automated platform. Define client needs, consult, train, and configure applications to match business requirements. Managed customer expectations for feature requests, and provided and designed solutions tailored to client requirements. Worked with clients and project team to craft specific project plans and conduct training & Rollout: made sure clients were well trained and prepared before going live
Teamwork & Human Resources Management in Early Twenty-Century (Morocco)
TRI Executive Leadership Development Program for Success Entrepreneurial thinking, innovation, and new technologies are powering startups and creating business opportunities for savvy entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and investors.
Economic integration in Africa is a strategy to increase the continent’s economic integration by creating a single market for goods and services. The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a strategic framework that started trading in January 2021. African countries are working together to address common challenges and harness their shared strengths to realize the continent’s potential market of 1.2 billion people. The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a strategic framework that creates a single market of goods and services for deeper economic integration on the African continent. To make this ambitious project a success, coordination will be needed at the local, national, regional and continental levels.
Supporting African multilateralism: Gradual implementation of the AfCFTA
🌍 Bringing Africa to the forefront of the International scene with consideration on the authentic development of the African communities in Africa and around the world. Bringing together 54 signatory states among the continent’s 55, the AfCFTA aims to create the world’s largest free trade zone, representing a market of 1.3 billion consumers. More in the following article:
A bilateral investment treaty (BIT) is an agreement concluded between two States which defines the broad terms and conditions under which private and companies invest in each others territories. The United States has concluded a number of BITs with various countries, including African countries. The stated basic aims of this BIT program includes the following key objectives:
to protect investment abroad especially in countries where investor rights are not already protected through existing agreements
to encourage the adoption of market-oriented domestic policies which treat private investments in an open, transparent and non-discriminatory way
to support the development of international law standars that are consisten with these objectives
The United States has concluded BITs with various African countries, inter alia with Rwanda, Mozambique, Republic of Congo, Congo DRC and Cameroon.
Trade and Investment Framework Agreements (TIFA)
Trade and Investment Framework Agreements (TIFA) provide strategic frameworks and principles for dialogue on trade and investment issues between the United States and the other parties to the TIFA. These agreements generally go beyond the BIT model. TIFAs have been concluded with a number of African partner countries, inter alia with Angola, Ghana, Liberia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Africa, as well as various regional country groups, such as COMESA, EAC and WAEMU. Discussions and negotiations with the SACU group are ongoing.
When the Past Divisions are the Path to the Present Vision of Unity in Africa
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a preferential trade regime aiming to progressively dismantling tariffs on goods and services produced on the continent, or with raw materials from Africa. The intention behind this large-scale project is to promote the free circulation of goods and thus stimulate intra-continental trade.
African leaders on Wednesday, March 23, 2018, signed three major economic agreements during the extraordinary session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) in Kigali, creating a Continental Free Trade Area (Zlec), perceived as essential to Africa’s economic development, through increased intra-African trade.
Some 44 countries signed the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area, while 43 heads of state signed the Kigali declaration for the launch of Zlec, and 27 signed protocols relating to the free movement of people, right to residence, and right of establishment.
Zlec gave birth to the largest free trade area in the world since the World Trade Organization which was established in 1995. Nineteen presidents attended as a number of prime ministers and government officials also signed for their respective countries.
Heavyweights, such as Morocco, Egypt, Kenya, and yet very protectionist Algeria, have signed the agreement, which will enter into force within 180 days after being ratified by the signatory countries.
“Some countries have reservations and have not yet finalized their national consultations. But we will have another summit in Mauritania in July and we hope these countries will sign then,” said AU Commissioner for Trade and Industry, Albert Muchanga.
Eleven countries out of the fifty-four countries of the AU are still missing, including Nigeria, whose President Muhammadu Buhari had decided not to make the trip to Kigali, after one of the largest unions in the country, Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC), had expressed its fears on the negative effects of the Zlec for the national economy. This union had also asked to be more involved in the negotiations and Mr. Buhari had agreed to “give more time to consultations”. Nigeria was one of the first economies on the continent, which had nevertheless coordinated the negotiations with Egypt. Other countries that have not signed the agreement include South Africa, and Benin, countries seeking taxes, especially on products transiting through their ports or roads, including Eritrea, Burundi,
Zlec must allow the gradual elimination of customs duties between member countries, thus promoting trade within the continent and allowing African countries to emancipate themselves from an economic system that is too focused on the exploitation of raw materials. The AU estimates that the implementation of Zlec will increase the level of intra-African trade by nearly 60% by 2022. Currently, only 16% of African countries’ trade is with other countries on the continent.
If the 55 member countries of the AU sign the document, the Zlec will open access to a market of 1.2 billion people, for a cumulative GDP of more than 2,500 billion dollars. Its advocates believe it will help diversify African economies and industrialize the continent while providing a unique platform to negotiate better trade deals with the outside world. Zlec is one of the key projects highlighted by the AU in its Agenda 2063, a long-term development program that aims to facilitate the flow of goods and people on the continent. At its last summit, in January in Addis Ababa, the AU had thus announced the creation of a single and liberalized market for air transport, including 23 countries of the continent.
Under the theme: “Creating an African Market”, the initiative falls under the AU Agenda 2063 It is estimated that if all 55 AU Member States ratify it, the agreement will bring together 1.2 billion people with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of over US$2 billion.
Cameroon is one of the countries committed to drive the development of a liberalized African market. On July 2, 2023, the Port Autonome de Kribi, Cameroon’s second largest port, welcomed its first cargo under the AfCFTA regime, from Tunisia. Cameroon had already launched a first wave of goods exports under this regime at the end of 2022.
The process of dismantling customs tariffs has begun in the country, in line with the outline adopted by the AfCFTA authorities: to ensure a smooth transition to market liberalization, customs tariffs will be gradually reduced to zero over 13 years. The first 10 years will concern 90% of the products identified by the authorities, and 7% of products over the remaining years. Certain “sensitive” products (3%) will be excluded from liberalization, in order to protect local industries from increased competition.
Les Start-ups Africaines Assiste-t-elles à un Dégel des Investissements ?
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Au cours des trois derniers mois, les start-ups africaines ont levé près de 600 millions de dollars (environ 537 millions d’euros) et ce troisième trimestre de 2024 marque un record pour l’année en cours.
Un signe et un montant qui s’apparentent à un début de reprise des levées de fonds dans le monde de la tech du continent. Supérieurs de 100 millions de dollars à ceux de la même période l’an dernier, ces chiffres confirment la correction du marché, après les envolées de 2021 et 2022. En tout, ce sont 44 start-ups qui ont levé des sommes égales ou supérieures à 1 million de dollars entre juillet et septembre.
2024, pas une année record. Si ces chiffres sont encourageants, car il montre un début de tendance haussière, ils ne permettront cependant pas de réaliser de progrès notables par rapport à l’année dernière :
Les levées de fonds de 2024 ne vont pas dépasser les 2,9 milliards de dollars de 2023.
Et, donc, de dépasser les très bons chiffres de 2022, qui avait vu les start-ups africaines parvenir à lever 4,6 milliards de dollars. « Pour la première fois depuis la mi-2022, les start-ups ont levé plus de fonds au cours des quatre derniers trimestres qu’au cours de la période précédente. Si la croissance est modeste, on peut espérer qu’elle constitue un premier signe avant-coureur de la croissance future de l’écosystème », précise à JA Max Cuvellier Giacomelli, co-fondateur de la plateforme Africa.
The Big Deal, qui suit les opérations de levées de fonds de potentielles futures licornes africaines.
For the last 3 years, we have written about reports stating fraud from the time when it was listed as an entity on the New Times Stock Exchange (NYSE). These among other things were considered false claims and presentations as well as manipulations of the amounts of deliveries, the amount of returns, and the amount of sales even encompassing, Jumia’s daily operations in the streets of the African cities crossed by the motorcycles of independent delivery staff that Jumia called “Consultants.” Jumia has not been able to quell this mismanagement at every level of its own internal and external organizational structure.
Jumia has also presented its identity as an African company which in reality turned out to be a German Baby Trying to look and behave as African. The departure of the top African Leaders and their replacement by European-based leaders had increased the dichotomy existing between the claims and the reality of the leadership as well as the role of Jumia within African communities.
Apparent efforts were made by the Jumia communication Department to bridge the gap by developing actions that were promoted as contributions to the local communities, including the distribution of masks during the Covid-19 and the recent agreement with Star Link to expand the outreach of the internet in rural areas [Jumia: Rural areas a critical segment within our addressable market (CNBC Africa – December 5, 2023)].
Such coverage is not philanthropic given that the next alternative strategy pursued by the new CEO is that one of the targets for the expansion of sales by Jumia. The unserviced rural areas are the next move, the next “El Dorado” and the substitute for the crowded competition existing in the African cities and urban areas. This is the new plan in Nigeria which is considered actually as the prime market for Jumia.
“According to the company, the goal of the cities’ activation is to expand the brand beyond Lagos and ensure it is perceived as a true Nigerian company. […] Read more in this corresponding article:
Case Study of “African” Startup: Jumia is Feedup with Africa Goat Soup Fou Fou Food Said El Mansour Cherkaoui Ph.D. December 30, 2023
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Africa has over half a billion mobile money accounts and it is the largest and fastest-growing fintech segment on the continent
Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia technically have the largest addressable market sizes for fintech across the MENA region
Enonchong says African e-commerce is a very difficult and expensive market to get into. While Western e-commerce rests on the assumption that the post office will deliver to all points, that is often not the case in Africa. “You have to build your distribution network.”
Other e-commerce operations have crashed and burned, including:
Jumia’s Nigerian rival Konga, which was taken over by Zinox Technologies in 2018 after firing 60% of its staff in 2017;
CFAO, the francophone Africa distributor, which suspended its online “Africashop”;
Naspers, which has twice withdrawn from the Kenyan market.
Related Vectors of African Startup
Continuously updated with new inputs and trends
For Better or Worse Emergent Technologies Changing Africa!
COVID-19 induced a global e-commerce boom, but Africa accounted for less than 3% of e-commerce activity.
The top emerging countries will vary from list to list, but a few of the most commonly recognized “emerging nations” are listed below.
BRIC countries
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.
These countries are known as the BRIC nations, an association formed in 2009 by the leaders of these countries to improve their political relationships and trade.
Brazil, Russia, India and China. These countries are currently considered the top four emerging markets.
But while the emerging market spotlight has long been focused on the BRIC nations of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the report, entitled Reaching the emerging middle-classes beyond BRIC, notes that attention is turning to smaller markets. The shift is being driven by the rates of faster economic and demographic growth in many of those markets – factors that are together fueling growth in consumer spending, including highly valued spending areas such as education.
Market Size: Aggregated purchasing power and number of potential clients within the relevant market segments;
Market Accessibility: General ease of doing business, regulation, transparency, communication, and infrastructure;
Market Match: Overlap between needs and preferences in the market and products and services provided by marker suppliers.
CIVETS countries or Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. These countries are predicted by some to be among the next emerging markets to quickly rise in economic prominence
Morocco Philippines Poland
Chile Czech Republic Hungary
South Korea Taiwan Thailand
Indonesia Malaysia Mexico
Other emerging markets include:
CIVETS countries: Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, and South Africa
E7 countries: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey
Group of Five (G5): Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa
World Economics has combined 24 countries to represent the Emerging Markets. Overall these countries account for 50% of Global GDP and 68.5% of global GDP growth in the past 10 years (2013-2023).
Next year, Emerging Market Growth growth is expected to decelerate to 3.6% / to a slightly below-trend 3.8% in 2024 on average from around 4% this year. Importantly, the growth premium in favour of Emerging Markets over Developed Markets is projected to continue widening. Asia is set to register the strongest contribution to world GDP once again. Nov 23, 2023
Compared to their developed market peers, many emerging market companies have the potential to increase earnings at a faster rate due to increasing living standards in their domestic markets and rising demand from the rest of the world. Nov 15, 2023
The Next Eleven (or N-11) are eleven countries—Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Turkey, and Vietnam— identified by Goldman Sachs investment bank as having a high potential of becoming the world’s largest economies in the 21st century along with the BRICs.
Looking beyond China, we explore below the three rising emerging market countries where we see particularly compelling investment opportunities. India, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia are leaders in their respective regions, all benefiting from economic reforms and digitization initiatives.
December 28, 2023 Saudi Arabia is one of the top 20 export and import markets in the world. In 2022, the US imported roughly 456,000 barrels of crude oil per day from Saudi Arabia. China is Saudi Arabia’s largest trading partner and the world’s largest buyer of crude oil. According to the Indonesian Trade Promotion Center, Saudi … Continue reading Saudi Arabia’s Trade Surplus: October 2013
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BUILDING CUSTOMER BASE
Build a Strong customer base through partnerships, we support our clients in many aspects of their strategies.
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In many ways, the case is clear. Nearshoring or onshoring can contribute to risk-resistant supply chains and lead to faster time-to-market, more effective planning cycles, and greater flexibility in response to disruption. Proximate sourcing can enable greater control and more frequent site visits, fewer cultural barriers, and better communication. Reductions in logistics costs and lead times can also bolster the balance sheet by freeing up working capital that is tied up in cash outlays to suppliers and inventory in transit.
Colliers International releases a new research report on the latest trends for the manufacturing industry in Asia, Europe and the Americas
Greater focus on automation and digital technology in manufacturing globally is helping to shift workforce needs from low-cost to highly-skilled. This trend is apparent across Europe, and globally, according to a report released by Colliers International. The report discusses multiple pressures which global manufacturing and supply chains are confronting.
“To remain competitive in a global context and future-proof their manufacturing sector, advanced economies are embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution and pioneering new forms of smart manufacturing whereby production combines the “Internet of Things” and digital technology to increase productivity, efficiencies and flexibility. Germany for example pursues this objective through its “Industrie 4.0” programme”. Commented Tim Davies, Managing Director, Head of Industrial & Logistics Practise Group for Colliers EMEA.
While this is putting greater emphasis on the quality rather than the quantity of the workforce in advanced economies, low-cost manufacturers remain an important part of the global manufacturing jigsaw. They are seeing their operations shift into less advanced economies, where labour costs are low and supply is more plentiful.
Karel Stransky, Director, EMEA Corporate Solutions: “Europe ultimately needs additional workers to avoid significant labour shortages. EU states in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are anticipating population declines of approximately 10% by 2050, while the EU dependency ratio is expected to double, a measure reflecting the pressure on the productive population. Rural areas will be the most affected due to the continuing urbanisation trend. This begs a question over the sustainability of local labour pools. Going forward, the countries that will emerge as manufacturing winners will be those who continue to create innovative technologies in the most cost-effective manner, combined with competitive, yet affordable, wages.”
CEE has been one of the main beneficiaries of new productive investment in Europe in the last few decades. This has been primarily focused on a group of so-called Tier 1 countries including the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. The Czech Republic has one of the highest stocks of manufacturing FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) per capita within CEE. This investment has put local labour markets under pressure.
The Czech unemployment rate has fallen from a post crisis peak of 7.3% in 2010 to 5.1% in 2015 and is expected to fall to just above 4% by the end of 2016, the lowest level in Europe. In Poland, another regional heavyweight, the unemployment rate is predicted to fall to an all-time low of 6.2% by the end of the year.
Meanwhile, gross average manufacturing wages have increased by nearly 50% in the Czech Republic, 57% in Slovakia, 68% in Poland and 73% in Hungary in the space of less than 10 years (2005 to 2014).
These cyclical and structural forces are slowly redrawing the manufacturing landscape across the CEE region as we know it, and are prompting some corporates to consider alternative territories to established manufacturing hot spots.
Rising labour costs and labour shortages in global manufacturing hot spots are redefining the map of global manufacturing, driving growth into the next group of low cost countries such as South Eastern Europe, Turkey and Morocco.
Labour costs are far from being the only determining factor for locating a site or plant or in product-sourcing decisions. The need to improve speed to market and the growing demand for customised product means proximity to final consumers is increasingly important. As a result, regions/countries close to major consumer blocks that offer a good balance between cost/risk are those best placed to benefit from this trend. These include the previously mentioned countries plus South East Asia and Mexico.
In line with Industry 4.0, Western European supply chains are set to become increasingly automated, with robot-operated factories the norm. Port operator APM Terminals, for example, recently announced the opening of the world’s first fully-automated container in Rotterdam Port. Amazon has cut its operating expenses by about 20% by using its Kiva robots, and plans to roll out this technology more extensively across Europe and Asia.
Automation and technology may also enable the return of some traditionally labour intensive productions, from farther afield, as they seek to maximize speed to market. While this will generate new real estate requirements, the overall impact on job markets is likely to be more muted and unevenly felt across skills/qualifications levels, with the low-skilled workforce set to be most impacted.
In CEE, tier 1 markets like Poland and the Czech Republic have become more expensive and increasingly saturated in their primary manufacturing locations. This is likely to pave the way to greater manufacturing investment, particularly by cost-sensitive industries, into “off-the beaten track” regions within these countries or deeper into South Eastern Europe and the Balkans region. Labour cost will be a key driver, with current infrastructure development across the region helping de-risk investment. EU enlargement on other hand seems to have lost momentum but remains important in the mid-long term.
Mediterranean countries like Turkey and Morocco are likely to capture some investment thanks to their large, young and educated workforce and their location at the crossroads of Europe and other emerging regions like Africa and the Middle East. Turkey in particular is the Western’ terminal of China’s Silk Road initiative, aimed at strengthening trade between the Far East and Europe and support China’s outward investment.
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Supporting African multilateralism: Gradual implementation of the AfCFTA
An ambitious initiative offering opportunities for worldwide businesses
Bringing together 54 signatory states among the continent’s 55, the AfCFTA aims to create the world’s largest free trade zone, representing a market of 1.3 billion consumers.
✈️ African Continental Free Trade Area
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is expected to transform African economies and lead to an increase in intraregional trade and inward investment. There is much progress in negotiations but the ultimate benefits depend on the way AfCFTA commitments are implemented. National AfCFTA Implementation Committees (NICs) can help in this endeavor.
The year 2023 is the African Union (AU) Year of Acceleration of AfCFTA Implementation. In line with the Decision of the 31st Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (the AU Assembly), held on 1–2 July 2018 in Nouakchott, Mauritania, Member States are required to set up NICs to facilitate implementation of the AfCFTA Agreement.
The primary objective is to boost intra-African trade. “Intra-African trade currently represents only 15% of the continent’s total trade, compared with 58% in Asia and 67% in Europe” (source: UN). The World Bank estimates that the implementation of the AfCFTA will boost intra-African trade volumes by 52.3% by 2025, as well as revenues for Africa and the rest of the world.
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First, AfCFTA implementation structures will need to be designed in ways that align well with existing trade negotiations and implementation structures. Second, the AfCFTA is not only a Free Trade Agreement but also a trade strategy involving a range of complementary instruments that address implementation, monitoring, payment systems, adjustment, and industrial policy.
This has led to much interest in Member States in what effective NICs look like and what they do. The role of the AfCFTA Secretariat in supporting the formation and operation of NICs is paramount. Two features associated with the AfCFTA project are important for implementation.
This briefing, aimed at the AfCFTA community concerned with implementing the AfCFTA, identifies appropriate institutional forms for NICs as well as 10 core functions that effective implementation agencies will carry out. It also outlines a potential five-step AfCFTA template for effective NIC formation and operation.
From negotiations to implementation: Building Effective AfCFTA National Implementation Committees
The African Union’s observations on the AfCFTA augur well for sectoral opportunities for businesses worldwide. Indeed, the institution behind the AfCFTA has made a number of recommendations to ensure that the initiative is properly implemented and achieves its stated projections.
According to the African Union, massive investment will be required in many sectors of African economies. The first and foremost need announced is for investment in improving the continent’s infrastructure. This financing requirement has been identified at between 130 and 170 billion dollars per year (source: AU), and the African Union is calling on governments to give priority to partnerships with the private sector and the transfer of technology on a global scale to modernize infrastructures.
On a sectoral level, opportunities have been identified in manufacturing, a sector that still contributes too little to Africa’s GDP, but whose growth forecasts have tripled following the implementation of the AfCFTA. The African Union particularly insisted on the priority of developing certain sectoral industries such as agro-processing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, green technologies, and mineral processing.
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Finally, particular attention is to pay to digital trade and all the technologies that are revolutionizing the way we do business today. Fintech solutions, mobile money and other digital tools for commerce are developing rapidly on the continent and require further investment and innovation.
Economic Integration and Eco-Financial Digitalization of Africa
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In 2021, the combined GDP of the 54 African countries was less than 15% of the GDP of the United States. The continent is made up of many relatively small countries, economies and markets, which is a disadvantage on the global stage, where countries with huge populations and GDPs wield the most influence.
Deeper economic integration in Africa paves the way for shared prosperity and greater global influence. Regional integration, similar to that of the European Union, has been cited as a key element in creating stability, fostering the growth of economies, improving market efficiency, sharing the costs of major infrastructure projects and ensuring peace and safety. And as the world becomes more digital every day, digital integration is essential for successful regional integration.
In this context, “digital integration” refers to the creation of shared systems and standard rules for digitalization across Africa. This involves digital cooperation, particularly in the areas of finance, governance and security. In practice, digital integration will include concepts such as a harmonized digital financial system, consistent laws across the continent for digital activities, and shared regulatory technology such as identity verification, e-taxation, and business registration systems. in Africa.
Partnerships with the private sector, building interoperable systems, and attention to electrical and Internet infrastructure are three key ideas that could help accelerate this digital integration.
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12/04/2023
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