The Enforcement Trap: Why 'Overregulation' is the Wrong Excuse for Africa's Stunted Growth

The popular narrative blames overregulation for Africa’s stalled economic development. But our data reveals the true obstacle is the Enforcement Trap, the critical failure to apply rules consistently and predictably.

The problem isn't the quantity of rules; it's the quality of enforcement, which turns bureaucracy into high-leverage corruption.

In this full analysis, we break down:

The Data Anchor: The staggering R=0.91 correlation between a country's Regulatory Quality and its Corruption Perception Index (CPI).

The Model vs. The Warning: Why countries like Rwanda and Botswana succeed, while countries with strong laws on paper (like Kenya) are held back by discretion and unpredictability.

The Dual Trap: Why fixing red tape is useless if basic services (power, ports, infrastructure) fail, imposing a crippling "growth tax" on businesses.

The Playbook for Progress: A 3-step solution focused on Shrinking Discretion, Digitizing Processes, and Fixing Service Delivery to unlock sustainable FDI and wealth creation.

Read the full 5-minute analysis on this critical policy shift: https://www.bizinfo-africa.com/

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