{"id":8895,"date":"2022-01-21T07:17:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T07:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/africa-is-central-to-the-global-economy-growth-arif-naqvi"},"modified":"2022-01-21T08:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T08:05:05","slug":"africa-is-central-to-the-global-economy-growth-arif-naqvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/africa-is-central-to-the-global-economy-growth-arif-naqvi","title":{"rendered":"Africa is central to the global economy growth\u201d \u2013 Arif Naqvi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The Abraaj Group is the largest private equity investor in a swathe of geographies across the southern hemisphere. Group Chief Executive Arif Naqvi tells Anver Versi why global economic growth depends on Africa.<\/p>\n

Arif Naqvi dislikes the term \u2018emerging markets\u2019. \u201cIt is condescending to call them so,\u201d he says. \u201cThey are \u2018Growth Markets\u2019. \u201d To underline his thesis, he points out that two thirds of new global growth is from this group of countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is this group that is fuelling the economies of the industrialised world.<\/p>\n

\u201d He should know. Arif Naqvi is no academic number-cruncher.<\/p>\n

He is the Group Chief Executive of The Abraaj Group, which is the world\u2019s largest private equity investor in growth markets with $7.5bn in assets under management.<\/p>\n

He established the company in 2002 and has returned around $4bn to investors. He is a man who puts his money where his beliefs are and his belief that Africa is primed for great things is unshakeable.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfrica is vital to the growth of the global economy,\u201d he says, \u201cand an essential component of growth markets.<\/p>\n

\u201d In Naqvi\u2019s lexicon, growth markets stretch from Latin America, through sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia to East Asia.<\/p>\n

Abraaj has 36 offices managed through six hubs, one in each region. It has made over 200 investments in 50 countries and achieved over 60 full and partial exits.<\/p>\n

Naqvi reels off an impressive set of figures to substantiate why he insists on calling the South-South axis growth markets: 19 of the 30 largest economies by 2050 will be from this group; they will account for 70% of global consumer spending growth between 2010 and 2020; they constituted 90% of urban population growth in 2012; they will provide an additional 1.4bn middle class consumers by 2020; 423 cities in this group will account for over 45% of global GDP growth between 2007 and 2025 and the value of infrastructure investment required over the next 20 years will amount to $40 trillion.<\/p>\n

While the figures may be mind-boggling, the investment opportunities they represent are mouth-watering. And Africa is right in the thick of things. \u201cThe world has erroneously looked at Africa as a development challenge,\u2019 says Arif Naqvi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have perceived it as erratic, un- stable, corrupt \u2013 and all the focus has been on governance.<\/p>\n

\u201d But, he says, the new view of Africa that is emerging will replace all this negativity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pace of reforms taking place on this continent is faster than anywhere else on earth. It is home to half of the 10 fastest-growing economies in the world.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the emphasis on Africa\u2019s resources is misplaced \u2013 resources do not employ people or generate this sort of growth. In fact, growth in the non-oil sector has been 5% over the last five years.<\/p>\n

\u201d Naqvi says that it is all a matter of perception \u2013 what are seen as deficits in Africa are often precisely the most promising areas of growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are tremendous long-term investment opportunities in infrastructure, for example,\u201d he points out.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfrica also has the fastest-growing middle class in the world \u2013 there are more middle-class families in Africa than the entire population of the US but there are more credit cards in Italy than in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa!<\/p>\n

Only 25% of Africans have bank accounts, which means that 75% of those who wish to have bank ac- counts are not being catered for. Can you ask for a better investment opportunity?\u201d delivering social goods He goes on to tick off several other gaps, including in healthcare and education.<\/p>\n

With The Abraaj Group\u2019s formidable experience in growth markets to fall back on, Naqvi is very clear on the direction required. \u201cThere can be no debate about needs. They exist and they need to be satisfied. The only question is on how to do so. People should not have to wait forever.<\/p>\n

\u201d He is equally clear that it is the private sector, working when required to do so with the public sector, that will deliver the social goods that are so urgently needed in growth markets.<\/p>\n

\u201cStop complaining that the government is not delivering on this or that. Governments cannot, do not and will not be able to fill all the gaps. The private sector must come in and provide what the people need.<\/p>\n

Governments can make the process easier and quicker by ensuring that the working and business environment is conducive and that bottlenecks and other obstacles are removed.<\/p>\n

\u201d Naqvi points to a list of its investments in companies that have made impressive inroads in providing much-needed social goods.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have done it repeatedly in Turkey, Thailand, Mexico, Pakistan and Egypt. We know how to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201d Last year, Abraaj acquired Aureos Capital, which was spun out of the British government\u2019s CDC and which specialised in invest- ing in small and medium-sized companies in Latin America, Asia and Africa. The acquisition has provided Abraaj with what Naqvi calls \u201cthe deepest bench of private equity experience across growth markets\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Abraaj Group now manages 25 sector- and country-specific Funds comprising private equity investments of between $10m and $100m in around 150 partner companies involved in manufacturing, education, retail, aviation, oil and gas, financial payments infra- structure, healthcare and agribusiness.<\/p>\n

Collectively, Abraaj\u2019s partner companies employ over 200,000 people worldwide. One of its current partner companies is Network International, the largest independent payment solutions provider in the Middle East and Africa.<\/p>\n

In Kenya, Brookside Dairy, a partner company is the largest dairy in East Africa. In addition to selling to the domestic mar- ket, Brookside exports to Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Egypt and Mauritius.<\/p>\n

Since the time of Abraaj\u2019s investment, Brookside\u2019s milk intake has increased by 17% to 600,000 litres per day through its increased outreach to small-scale suppliers in the region. Brookside sources 95% of its milk from over 145,000 local subsistence farmers, cooperatives and farmer groups on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Also in Kenya, The Abraaj Group invested in Nairobi Women\u2019s Hospital through its Africa Health Fund, which was launched in 2009 with support from the International Finance Corporation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, DEG and the African Development Bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe objective of the Fund is to help low- income Africans gain access to affordable and high-quality healthcare.<\/p>\n

Abraaj\u2019s investment in Nairobi Women\u2019s Hospital has enabled it to expand from one 61-bed facility to a network of three hospitals and 226 beds,\u201d says Naqvi.<\/p>\n

Despite the huge strides that Africa has made, Naqvi concedes that several factors, such as deeper and better education to improve human capacity, a more coordinated approach to infrastructure, increased intra- African trade, more support to SMEs and budding entrepreneurs and a greater willing- ness of national and municipal authorities to work in tandem with the private sector will have to fall into place before the continent can really take off.<\/p>\n

\u201cNevertheless, I believe that come 2050, most of sub-Saharan Africa will be middle class.<\/p>\n

All the building blocks are there \u2013 it\u2019s just a question of putting them together,\u201d says Arif Naqvi, as he and his company set about connecting the blocks.<\/p>\n

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