2008 Investor Survey

UNITED NATIONSINDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION

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Investor performance, perception

and investment support services survey 2008

2008 Investor Survey


Survey 2008

UNIDOInvestor Survey

2008

Domestic Foreign

Manufacturing Service Manufacturing Service


Content of questionnaire

More than 100 questions with around 600 data files on

• General profile of company• Sales and export• Regional and international trade• Labour-force profile• Cost of inputs and fixed assests• Business linkages


Content of questionnaire

• Organizational relationship & autonomy• Innovation• Investment support services • Investment environment• Fiscal contribution to economy• Closing questions• Contact and reference section• Control dat


General profile of company

• Company network– Associate companies– Multi-company, multi-plant organization

• Sector & Product

• Organizational structure

• Ownership structure

• Mode of entry


Sales and export

• Sales (income) items • Sales performance (previous and future)

• Competition • Performance self assesment• Capacity utilization• Export (direct and indirect)

• Export destionations• Export performance (previous and future)


Regional and international trade

• Awareness of RTA, RECs and other international trade agreements

• Benefits of RTAs & RECs

• Perception on opportunities and possible disadvantages through RTAs


Labour-force profile

• Labour-force profile

• Labor-force turnover– Past– Anticipated future

• Wages and salaries

• Training


Cost of inputs and fixed assests

• Cost of inputs in detail• Sources of financing working capital/fixed

assets• Inventory and stock turnover• Channels of acquiring the inputs• Origin of inputs• Energy• Fixed assets details


Business linkages

• Supplier and buyer profile

• Impact of buyers & suppliers on company‘s performance improvements


Organizational relationship

• Assistance of parent company/local partner/foreign partner

• Subsidiary autonomy

• Foreign partner influence in decision making


Innovation

• Innovation strategy adoption

• Innovation collaborators

• Introduction of new products or process

• Use of certification and standards


Investment support services

• Assestments of investor support services and service providers

• Awareness of Investment promotion agency (IPA) services and ist performance

• Other itermediary orgaizations performance


Investment environment

• Infrastructure

• Market conditions

• Availibility and cost of inputs

• Opportunities for business partnership

• Business climate

• Regulatory environment


Fiscal contribution to economy

• Tax contribution

• Tax holidays


Pilot Survey

KENYA

SENEGAL

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3

• Meeting with CIT • Training• Group interviews• Assesment of results and discussion • Meeting with CIT

• Training• Group interviews• Assesment of results and discussion

• Individual interviews• Assesment of results and discussion

• Improvements for final questionnaire• Test of final questionnaire

• Test of final questionnaire

2008 Investor Survey

Documents

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