Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: Policies Also MatterA few Sub-Saharan countries, by improving their business environment, have begun to attract more substantial foreign direct investment than other African countries with bigger domestic markets and greater natural resources. Like Ireland and Singapore, perhaps they can become competitive internationally and attract sustainable foreign direct investment. |
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29 African countries Angola attract foreign investors attracting FDI attractive countries Average barriers Benin Burundi Cameroon cent Central African Republic Chad changes in GDP climate for FDI Cote d'Ivoire cross-country regressions decision of TNCs differences in GDP econometric analysis economic growth elasticities environment explanatory variables FDI in Africa foreign direct investment GDP growth Ghana group of 29 Guinea host country illiteracy rate improve their business indicator infrastructure Institutional Investor investment codes Investment in Africa investment projects Kenya large domestic market location decision macroeconomic Madagascar Madani Malawi Mali and Mozambique Mauritius mimeo Namibia Niger Nigeria November number of telephone Pigato privatization programme ranking of 29 region related to FDI Research Working Paper Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa successful countries successful in attracting Tanzania telephone lines Uganda UNCTAD United Nations unstable political urban population value of natural Washington D.C. World Bank World Economic Forum York and Geneva Zambia Zimbabwe