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World Bank says FDI inflow to Ghana declined to $2bn in 2020

The World Bank has said foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Ghana declined to $2 billion in 2020 from the previous amount of $3.9 billion in 2019.

According to the Bank, this represents a 52 percentage points reduction in FDI inflows to the country.

The fall in FDI, the World Bank asserts in its International Debt Statistics report, is however largely due to the impact of Covid-19 on both the global and Ghanaian economy.

The $2 billion FDI inflow stated by the World Bank in its report is however contrary to data provided by the Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC).

According to the GIPC, FDI inflows to Ghana for 2020 totalled $2.65 billion, a 139 percentage points increase over that of 2019.

“In contrast Ghana, one of the largest FDI recipients in West Africa and the first country on the continent to impose mobility [Covid-19] restrictions, registered a 52% decline in FDI inflows in 2020. They fell to $2.0 billion from $3.9 billion in 2019 with manufacturing, services, and the mining sector all recording a downturn,” noted the World Bank.

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FDIs to sub-Saharan Africa in 2020

Besides South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa was the only other region to record an increase in FDI inflows in 2020.

They rose on average 20% to $24.3 billion, with many countries recording a rise in inflows in 2020.

FDI inflows to Senegal according to the report rose 39% to $1.5 billion due to increased investments in the energy sector and start-up of work on the largest offshore oil and gas project, the SNE Oil Field, being developed by a consortium of Australian and British companies and Petrosen (Senegal).

Also, inflows to the Republic of the Congo rose 19% to $4.0 billion, propelled by investment in offshore oil fields after a licensing round of available oil blocks in 2019.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Bank said FDIs increased 11% to $1.6 billion due to rising demand and increased prices for cobalt used in smartphones and electric car batteries.

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In Nigeria, the report said long-term policies aimed at FDI diversification took effect and inflows rose 9% to $930 million from several new investments in the non-oil sector, including a food manufacturing facility in the Lekke Free Trade Zone and development of the Lekke Deep Sea Port by Chinese investors.

Inflows to Togo also jumped 72.3% to $639 million largely on account of investment from neighboring countries including $100 million from CimMetal (Burkina Faso) for a construction material plant and $60 million cement plant constructed by Dangote (Nigeria), the report pointed out.

In Angola, the World Bank said a slowdown in repatriation of capital by multinational companies in the oil and gas industry reduced outflows to –$2.0 billion from –$4.7 billion in 2019. In contrast some of the region’s large FDI recipients saw inflows fall in 2020.

In Ethiopia, the largest recipient in Eastern Africa, inflows fell moderately 6%, with continued investment into key sectors like agriculture and manufacturing that offset much of the decline in hospitality and aviation. The government also facilitated FDI for the manufacture of personal protective equipment, and several Chinese companies started production in 2020

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