Economist: 90% of africa's economy works in informal sector
Professor Beni Dimtzer, an international economist in the field of development, said that international institutions operating on the African continent do not have the capacity to measure the real state of the African economy, because 90% of the economic volume on the African continent is occupied by the informal economy.
Professor Bini, during the famines seminar in Africa and the position of the West, which was hosted by the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies today, added that the conclusion of the field work in the countries of the African continent shows that famines on the African continent are not due to insufficient food, but in depriving citizens of In the face of the famines experienced by some countries in the past decades, including Ethiopia in the 1980s, for example, the safes were full of enough food to feed the citizens, but unless you are an influential member of the country's ruling party, you will not be able to get it.
Beni, a member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning team, explained that the African continent has great potential to provide food, and in 1980 the sub-Saharan region did not import food, knowing that the savannah forests of Guinea can provide food for the whole world, with an area of 600 One million hectares can be used for food cultivation, according to fao estimates, despite these possibilities, sub-Saharan Africa spent $35-50 billion in imports in 2016, and imports are expected to rise to $110 billion by 2016. 2025.