GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN INVESTOR ACTIVITY (CASE STUDY OF AFRICA)

Abstract

Today, there is a serious competition between foreign investors in Africa. Russian companies also have foreign economic interests in the continent, which requires studying the experience of other states, namely their country and sectoral priorities and the instruments used. Human geography lacks a generally accepted framework for analyzing the geography of investment from the perspective of donors rather than recipients of capital, which is why it is proposed in this paper. After specifying the relationship between the main terms in the field of investment (foreign investor activity, investment image, investment climate, etc.), the article provides a consistent scheme of geographical macroregional analysis of this sphere using tile maps as the most productive means of visualizing spatial information on investment at a given hierarchical level. After identifying the spatial and sectoral patterns of activity of different investment donor countries in Africa, an attempt is made to reconstruct the factors that have predetermined the spatial and sectoral differentiation of direct investment in the countries of the macro-region. A typology of capital-exporting states (‘ubiquitous’, ‘satellite’, ‘cultureoriented’, ‘European colonial powers’, ‘intra-regional leaders) that can be applied (both partially andfully) to other continents is proposed.