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| Methodology To overcome the deficit in the quality and coverage of currently available data, the study makes use of anew database assembled in 2006 for this analysis. Specifically, micro data from anew firm-level quantitative survey and from an original set of individual qualitative business case studies are utilized. These are supplemented by official government statistics at the aggregate level, along with existing firm-level data from Investment Climate Assessments (ICAs). Annex A describes in detail the databases utilized. Information from qualitative Diagnostic Trade Integration Studies (DTISs) on 26 African countries carried out under the Integrated Framework (IF) for Trade-Related Technical Assistance was also utilized see annex B fora description of DTISs. Briefly, the new firm-level survey covers just under 450 businesses operating in Africa having varying degrees of involvement with Chinese and Indian investors, of different sizes and ownership forms, and located in four countries Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania. The surveys were carried out on a confidential basis that is, all individual firms’ identities have been blinded and they are not revealed in the analysis. The new business case studies were developed in the field, again, on a confidential basis, using 16 firms located in the same four countries. 7 As in the surveyed firms, the firms on which the business case studies were developed have varying degrees of involvement with Chinese and Indian investors, as well as differences in size and ownership form. The firms covered by the survey and the business case studies are drawn from a consistent set of a variety of sectors in each country, except for the petroleum and petroleum-related sector. 8 Any such firms were excluded in light of the disproportionately large scale of investment required in the sector, which would introduce a significant bias to the data analysis at the same time, while there is much more known—and understood—about what is driving Chinese and Indian investment and trade in the African petroleum sector, the determinants and effects of these countries commercial involvement in other sectors is much less appreciated. 01-Chap1:01-Chap1 10/8/06 5:47 AM Page 46 |