Foreign Direct Investment from China, India and South Africa in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New or Old Phenomenon?

John Henley, Stefan Kratzsch, Mithat Külür and Tamer Tandogan

No RP2008-24, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The burgeoning literature on outward foreign direct investment from emerging markets has largely focused on analysing the motives of investors as reported by parent companies. This paper, instead, focuses on firm-level investments originating from China, India or South Africa in fifteen host countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The analysis is based on a sub-set of firms drawn from the overall sample of 1,216 foreign-owned firms participating in the UNIDO Africa Foreign Investor Survey, carried out in 2005.

Keywords: Business networks; International business enterprises; Foreign investments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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