Diaspora Investors
What are the biggest challenges preventing you from investing in Ethiopia?
- Deciding exactly which opportunity to pursue
- Understanding the regulatory structure for investing in Ethiopia
- Lack of options to pool funds or other forms of equity investment approaches
- You have a great idea but don’t have the funding to pursue it
- Lack reliable partners on the ground to support your investment interests
- Fear of the unknown
We know how you feel. Today more than ever, Ethiopians in the Diaspora are thinking hard about investing in Ethiopia but are understandably concerned about the challenges involved in doing so.
We can simplify that process for you.
We already have services designed to help you overcome many of the challenges and are working hard to develop more.
- Ultra light and cost effective Business Opportunity Assessments to give you a feel for the investment environment without committing to a full out feasibility study
- Actively seeking equity investment opportunities in Ethiopian share companies to promote to potential shareholders in the US and beyond
- Complete business registration and establishment support leveraging assets on the ground from our Ethiopia office
- Land Acquisition, business monitoring, privatization bid and other support services also available
If you have had thoughts of investing in Ethiopia at some point in time, the best time to do so may be right now!
2837... The number of new businesses registered in Addis Ababa alone during the year 2007. It won’t be impossible to invest in Ethiopia 5 years from now. But it will be a lot more competitive.
We are committed to finding new and innovative ways that can catalyze private sector investment in Ethiopia.
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to find out how we may be able to support your investment objectives.
Sleeping Giant...
It has been a long known fact that the engagement of the African Diaspora in the continuing
development of that continent is one of the most promising options that can
truly result in a paradigm shift and exponential increases in the pace at which
such development takes place. This
is particularly true for
Ethiopia which
possesses one of the largest, best educated and affluent Diaspora communities
worldwide, many of whom are increasingly interested in engaging on such efforts
in a significant way. In fact the public sector (including the government of Ethiopia as well
as a variety of foreign agencies) has of
late applied a very high degree of focus on promoting and enabling just such an
engagement.
But Diaspora investors face many of the same challenges that other foreign based investors do. Which is precisely why Emergent's Investment Support Services are just as applicable to them. However, there are a set of incremental challenges that are more prevalent to this segment of investors and which therefore require targeted solutions in order to achieve the desired results. Some of these challenges are access to capital, finance pooling mechanisms and concrete information on what incentives are available to Diaspora investors over and above other foreign based investors.
In fact, solutions to many of these challenges are available - for instance, given a well thought out, researched and documented business idea, multiple external sources (private & public) of potential funding can be explored. Emergent provides assistance towards such solutions and has a particular focus on enabling these types of investments in partnership with various public sector entities:
- Financial intermediation assistance including grant/loan applications to suitable bodies
- Options for finance pooling and navigating through the regulatory framework that governs these
- Information on what incremental incentives are available to Diaspora investors
- Information on investment opportunities that may be better suited to individual Diaspora investors such as smaller scale ventures
- Remote establishment of your business to maximize the use of your time when you travel to Ethiopia
If you have ever considered the possibility of investing in Ethiopia as a means of participating in the country's development, helping put friends or family back home in business for themselves or even as a first step for making the move back yourself, there has never been a better time for you to do so than right now!
When investors from China, India & Israel amongst others, are flocking to Ethiopia to take advantage of all the opportunities they see, shouldn't you be utilizing your inherent advantages to do the same??!! Contact us today to find out how.
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