{"id":80268,"date":"2017-03-31T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T11:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=51cfad9ce29c6b689da594fa9f0005af"},"modified":"2017-03-31T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T11:36:47","slug":"press-release-priti-patel-urges-city-of-london-to-become-global-financial-centre-for-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80268","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Priti Patel urges City of London to become global financial centre for developing countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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International Development Secretary Priti Patel today opened the London Stock Exchange and announced a new partnership which will help generate much needed business investment in developing countries to help them stand on their own two feet.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the launch of the London Stock Exchange\u2019s (LSE) first-ever \u2018Companies to Inspire Africa\u2019 report, Ms Patel urged the City of London to rise to the challenge of becoming the global financial centre for the developing world.<\/p>\n

Ms Patel set out that the LSE is leading the way through a new partnership with the organisation GuarantCo \u2013 supported by DFID \u2013 which will bring more international bonds in a wider range of currencies to the London market.<\/p>\n

This will mean businesses can invest in vital infrastructure projects in developing countries, helping them defeat poverty with sustained economic growth. The partnership should also lead to more businesses from Africa and South Asia being able to borrow in London, in the currency that suits them best.<\/p>\n

Ms Priti Patel has been clear that no country can defeat grinding poverty without sustained economic growth \u2013 jobs and investment opportunities are vital to helping the world\u2019s poorest people stand on their own two feet.<\/p>\n

The LSE\u2019s Companies to Inspire Africa report identifies the fastest-growing and most dynamic private businesses across Africa to help generate investment opportunities for UK companies.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the LSE Ms Patel said:<\/p>\n

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The London Stock Exchange\u2019s first-ever \u2018Companies to Inspire Africa\u2019 report is proof of the dynamism and vision of the City of London in supporting Africa\u2019s growing economies.<\/p>\n

Now is the time for UK businesses to seize the opportunities offered by Africa, and the UK Government is supporting the City of London to become the global financial centre for the developing world.<\/p>\n

This will help Africa industrialise faster, trade more and create millions of jobs, driving the continent forward to a future of prosperity, and helping some of the world\u2019s poorest countries stand on their own two feet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The African continent forms one of the most significant opportunities to not only create jobs, build livelihoods and help some of the world\u2019s poorest people, but also produce trading opportunities for British businesses and create our trading partners of the future.<\/p>\n

Without those jobs a whole generation will be consigned to a future where opportunities are always out of reach, potentially fuelling instability and mass migration with direct consequences for countries like Britain.<\/p>\n

The additional financing needed to achieve the UN Global Goals by 2030 is estimated at $2.5 trillion every year, but current investment levels are less than half of that.<\/p>\n

DFID\u2019s first Economic Development Strategy<\/a>, launched by Ms Patel earlier this year, sets out how private sector investment will help developing nations speed up their rate of economic growth, trade more and industrialise faster, and ultimately lift themselves out of poverty.<\/p>\n

City firms including Standard Chartered, Aviva, Prudential, Lloyds of London, and the London Stock Exchange have already made public statements about supporting and rising to the challenge set by Ms Patel to drive more private sector investment into the world\u2019s poorest countries.<\/p>\n

Notes to editors<\/h3>\n

GuarantCo is majority-funded by the Department for International Development, and provide guarantees for local currency lending in developing countries. By reducing the risks this helps to mobilise private sector capital for financing infrastructure projects in local currency without the fear that currency fluctuations could render them bankrupt.<\/p>\n

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