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a work permit? How many engineers/scientists do you employ? How many engineers/scientists were locally recruited and how many need a work permit? How many university graduates do you employ? How many university graduates were locally recruited and how many need a work permit? 29. What is the total amount of annual wages? 30. What was the percentage increase/decrease in employment over the last 3 years? 31. What is the anticipated percentage increase/decrease in employment over the next 3 years? PROFILE OF THE FOREIGN INVESTOR 32. Describe the organizational structure of your company. Is your company a subsidiary of a parent company with headquarters in another country or is it owned by a foreign individual/family? 33. What was the main motivation for the foreign investor to invest in ? 34. Describe the local partner. IMPACT OF THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT ON THE LOCAL ECONOMY 35. Please indicate the approximate expenditures of your company on R&D and training and indicate how much of it was carried out in-house or outsourced to a local contractor? 36. Are you a member of a business association? If yes, what are the benefits? 37. Do you play an advisory role with/ for any government institution? 38. What is the total cost of bought in materials during the last year? 39. What are the channels of procurement for bought in materials and their shares in total? 40. Do you subcontract operations to local companies? 41. Do you subcontract indirect services to local suppliers? 42. Please rank the three main barriers to expanding local sourcing of inputs or sub-contracting of operations. 43. Do you interact with local suppliers/sub-contractors to improve their operations? 44. Have you influenced the relocation of any of your international suppliers to ? If your company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a foreign company 45. How important to your operations are the contributions of the parent company (or its other subsidiaries) (5-point Likert scale)? 46. What is the estimated number of work-days of managerial or technical staff sent from the parent company (or its other subsidiaries) to assist your company during the last year? 47. What is the approximate number of man-days of training given to your staff at the headquarters of the parent company (or its other subsidiaries) during the last year? 48. What percentage of your machinery and equipment has been procured through the parent company (or its other subsidiaries)? 49. Is there any input from your company to the parent company (or its other subsidiaries)? If your company is a Joint Venture 50. How important to your operations is the contribution of the foreign partner (5-point Likert scale)? 51. How important to your operations is the contribution of the local partner (5-point Likert scale)? 52. How would you rate the foreign partner's involvement in the executive management of the joint venture? 53. What is the level of influence of the foreign partner on the decisions of the board? If your company is 100% foreign owned 54. Did the foreign investor own / manage a similar line of business in another country prior to investing in ? 55. How important is the contribution of the foreign investor to the operations of the company (5-point Likert scale)? 144 Africa Foreign Investor Survey 2005
INVESTMENT AND OPERATING EXPERIENCE For firms that started operations within the last three years: 56. Before the foreign investor decided to invest in what information/services were needed? How important was this service to the investor? How well was this service provided and who provided it? 57. What services did you need after establishment of your operations? How important was this service to the investor? How well was this service provided and who provided it? 58. Rank the 3 most important issues that have to be addressed to induce you to increase your investments in ? 59. Has your company been registered or provided with a certificate by the Investment Promotion Agency (IPA)? a. If registered: Why are you registered? How efficient was the certification process? How useful was the certificate or registration in obtaining benefits and simplifying the process of getting established? Has the performed to expectations in the last three years? b. If not registered: Why you are not registered? 60. Rank the top three improvements you suggest the make to their services. 61. Of all the business services providers you have contacted while setting up/operating in , rank the top 3 most helpful? 62. Please indicate the importance to your company of the following 26 location factors and assess how they have changed over the last 3 years (5-point Likert scale)? 63. Has your investment in performed up to expectations in the last three years (5-point Likert scale)? CLOSING QUESTIONS 64. Have you participated in UNIDO's Foreign Investors Survey in 2003? 65. Would you be interested in receiving a Report of this year's study? 66. Would you like to be contacted by the IPC to discuss your investment in ? Original questionnaire is downloadable under www.unido.org/doc/42505 Survey questions 145
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Preface Investment is the key to un
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Foreword This is a pioneering and m
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mostly subsidiaries of small TNCs,
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1. Introduction Little empirical st
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Figure 3.8 FDI stock - book value o
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Table 3.2 Top-5 foreign investor su
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majority of firms global exporters
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clear trend of increasing South com
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sales, old L-TNC, is among the lowe
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6. Impact on the local economy This
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eveals a group of 77 subsidiaries o
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for accuracy. The whole sample expe
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Figure 6.16 Expected re-investment
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Local content impacts The analysis
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other hand, the thesis, according t
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Technology and know-how transfer In
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Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) (
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