Redeployment: an aspect of development in Tropical Africa

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Title:	Redeployment: an aspect of development in Tropical Africa
Author:	Anonymous
Year:	1965
Periodical:	Statistical and Economic Review
Period:	April
Pages:	1-38
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	foreign enterprises domestic trade private enterprises
Abstract:	This article is concerned with the redeployment problems of the larger international merchant firms operating in Tropical Africa. Expatriate in origin and in much of the capital and many of the skills that they have brought to their trading, they have in recent years been undergoing - are still undergoing - a fundamental process of transformation. Particularly this is so of their local operating companies, which in fact as in anme have become national companies - Nigerian or Ghanaian - while retaining the advantages that derive from their international connections. The changes that are taking place in the African context have special implications for firms in these international category. Implications of development for merchant enterprise (Economic, political) - The current course of redeployment (The meaning of redeployment - The general merchant in tropical Africa; Impact of postwar change; Lines of contraction and withdrawal; New horizons of opportunity; Specialized merchandising; Local industrialization) - Redeployment in terms of capital, manpower and structure (Capital; Manpower; Structure) - Redeployment as a continuing process.