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Research on Foreign Investment in Africa

African countries have traditionally been the sites of significant foreign private investment in extractive industries. However, the pattern of investment is changing in many developing countries in Africa, as well as in other regions, as manufacturing activities assume increasing importance. While extractive operations will continue to be of great importance in total African receipts of foreign private investment, numerous African countries will experience greater inflows of manufacturing investments to service local markets, or to produce finished goods or partly assembled components of industrial products for export. In the 1970's research will be needed to keep pace with the changes in direction and composition of foreign private investment in African countries, and to take account of the needs of host countries and territories for accurate information on corporate practices and trends in overall foreign investment. This note presents some suggestions for research in the area -of foreign private investment and relations between developed and developing countries. A list of possible sources of information on foreign private investment and multinational enterprises is also provided.