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| Annex 5A For more than a decade, the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) has offered free online services to give investment promotion intermediaries a platform to effectively disseminate information on investment opportunities and to market their respective locations. The objective has been to provide information on investment opportunities and facilitate investment flows in emerging markets. 21 MIGA’s online information dissemination services provide an interesting snapshot of the supply side of the FDI-information market. In terms of the number of FDI-information resources supplied through MIGA’s online services, Sub-Saharan Africa is well represented compared to other regions. Out of nearly 8,400 investment-related information resources contained in the online services, 22 percent refer to Sub-Saharan Africa. Of the 55 national and provincial investment promotion agencies listed for Sub-Saharan Africa in MIGA’s directories, 21 agencies supply content to the online services. South Africa, Tanzania, and Ghana appear consistently among the top countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of the number of investment information resources available under each of the four subjects (legal, markets, business, opportunity. Also, South Africa tends to feature more prominently than the other countries. An analysis of the number of users by region shows a very significant increase in the number of registered users based in East Asia, South East Asia, and South Asia who have selected Sub-Saharan Africa as a region of interest for investment. Sub-Saharan Africa ranks second to Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of generating the most interest from Asian users (see figure A. Specifically, the number of FDI Xchange registered users who have selected Sub-Saharan Africa as a region of interest has increased 20 times during the period between June 2002, when the service was first launched, and December The snapshot of investment information that is contained in MIGA’s online services suggests that Sub-Saharan Africa overall is well represented. However, the “on-average” good picture of the continent hides significant asymmetries across countries in terms of investment information availability. Important gaps in the availability of information for many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa still exist. It should be noted that this analysis only points to a snapshot of the quantity of documents available in MIGA’s online services database. Only a third of the investment promotion 05-Chap5:05-Chap5 10/10/06 11:14 AM Page 286 “ BETWEEN - THE - BORDER ” FACTORS IN AFRICAN - ASIAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT 287 agencies from the continent listed on MIGA’s online services supply content directly. These issues indicate the need to improve not only the quantity but also the quality of information resources focused on investor demands. 22 On the demand side, the evidence based on users interests strongly suggests growing attention to Sub-Saharan Africa by potential investors from Asia. Download 5.17 Mb. Share with your friends:
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