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What Role for Stock Exchanges, Venture Capital and Leasing Companies in Developing the Private Sector in Africa?

In: Constraints on the Success of Structural Adjustment Programmes in Africa

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  • Mike Faber

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Outside an office on the second floor of the Kingsway Building, Kwame Nkrumah Avenue, Accra a bright sign cheerfully invites the visitor ‘Buy a Company Today’. It is the office of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). In fact, it is not possible to buy a company through the GSE — any more than it would be feasible to do so through most of Sub-Saharan Africa’s other Emerging Market exchanges.1 What it is possible for African investors to do is to buy shares, and therefore partial ownership, of a range of publicly quoted companies. How important a step forward is that?

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  • Mike Faber, 1996. "What Role for Stock Exchanges, Venture Capital and Leasing Companies in Developing the Private Sector in Africa?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Charles Harvey (ed.), Constraints on the Success of Structural Adjustment Programmes in Africa, chapter 9, pages 174-191, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-24373-0_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24373-0_9
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