Charles Sebuharara is a visiting professor of Economics at Binghamton University. His research interests include, financial economics, monetary policy and central banking, and macroeconomics and investment strategies.
Currently, there are 29 stock exchanges, including two regional exchanges, in Africa. The Democratic Republic of the Congo isn’t among them. That’s something that Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Charles Sebuharara would like to see changed.
In the Congo, you have many brilliant people with great ideas — entrepreneurs — but unfortunately, the country lacks a robust system that can help them implement those ideas and take them to even higher levels of business success.
Even here in the U.S., when companies go public, they must file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where they have to disclose information about their businesses, opportunities, the risks and their financials; that’s how people can gain confidence in the system