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In this chapter I document the origin of efforts to promote investment in Africa through the creation of a set of new institutions. Along with initiatives to provide aid and further trade, these new institutional mechanisms to assist private investors developed out of particular historic conditions within which the United States began to assert its economic power in a region dominated by European capital.
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© 2014 Roshen Hendrickson
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Hendrickson, R. (2014). The Cold War and the Creation of Institutions Promoting Private Investment. In: Promoting US Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137365446_3
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