Africa Foreign Investor Survey 2005 - unido
Africa Foreign Investor Survey 2005 - unido
Africa Foreign Investor Survey 2005 - unido
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a work permit?<br />
How many engineers/scientists do you employ? How many engineers/scientists were locally recruited<br />
and how many need a work permit?<br />
How many university graduates do you employ? How many university graduates were locally recruited and<br />
how many need a work permit?<br />
29. What is the total amount of annual wages?<br />
30. What was the percentage increase/decrease in employment over the last 3 years?<br />
31. What is the anticipated percentage increase/decrease in employment over the next 3 years?<br />
PROFILE OF THE FOREIGN INVESTOR<br />
32. Describe the organizational structure of your company. Is your company a subsidiary of a parent company<br />
with headquarters in another country or is it owned by a foreign individual/family?<br />
33. What was the main motivation for the foreign investor to invest in ?<br />
34. Describe the local partner.<br />
IMPACT OF THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT ON THE LOCAL ECONOMY<br />
35. Please indicate the approximate expenditures of your company on R&D and training and indicate<br />
how much of it was carried out in-house or outsourced to a local contractor?<br />
36. Are you a member of a business association? If yes, what are the benefits?<br />
37. Do you play an advisory role with/ for any government institution?<br />
38. What is the total cost of bought in materials during the last year?<br />
39. What are the channels of procurement for bought in materials and their shares in total?<br />
40. Do you subcontract operations to local companies?<br />
41. Do you subcontract indirect services to local suppliers?<br />
42. Please rank the three main barriers to expanding local sourcing of inputs or sub-contracting of operations.<br />
43. Do you interact with local suppliers/sub-contractors to improve their operations?<br />
44. Have you influenced the relocation of any of your international suppliers to ?<br />
If your company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a foreign company<br />
45. How important to your operations are the contributions of the parent company (or its other subsidiaries)<br />
(5-point Likert scale)?<br />
46. What is the estimated number of work-days of managerial or technical staff sent from the parent company<br />
(or its other subsidiaries) to assist your company during the last year?<br />
47. What is the approximate number of man-days of training given to your staff at the headquarters of<br />
the parent company (or its other subsidiaries) during the last year?<br />
48. What percentage of your machinery and equipment has been procured through the parent company<br />
(or its other subsidiaries)?<br />
49. Is there any input from your company to the parent company (or its other subsidiaries)?<br />
If your company is a Joint Venture<br />
50. How important to your operations is the contribution of the foreign partner (5-point Likert scale)?<br />
51. How important to your operations is the contribution of the local partner (5-point Likert scale)?<br />
52. How would you rate the foreign partner's involvement in the executive management of the joint venture?<br />
53. What is the level of influence of the foreign partner on the decisions of the board?<br />
If your company is 100% foreign owned<br />
54. Did the foreign investor own / manage a similar line of business in another country prior to<br />
investing in ?<br />
55. How important is the contribution of the foreign investor to the operations of the company<br />
(5-point Likert scale)?<br />
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