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global financial and economic crisis. The main FDI recipients included many
natural-resource producers that have been attracting large shares of the region's
inflows in the past few years, but also some additional commodity-rich
countries. Developed countries were the leading sources of FDI in Africa,
although their share in the region's FDI stock has fallen over time. A number of
African countries adopted policy measures to make the business environment in
the region more conducive to FDI. However the region's overall investment
climate still presents a mixed picture. In 2009, there is likely to be a decline in FDI
inflows into Africa following five years of
uninterrupted growth.
Fig. 5.3.1: Figure II.3. Africa: Top 10 recipients of FDI inflows, 2007-2008 (Billions
of dollars)
Nigeria
Angola
Egypt
South Africa
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Tunisia
Algeria
Congo
Sudan
Morocco
2008
2007
12
16
20
Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2009: Transnational Corporations,
Agricultural Production and Development.
Fig. 5.3.2. Africa top 10 recipients of FDI inflows, a 2006-2007 (Billions of US
dollars)
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