非洲吸收的外国直接投资有相当大的比重流向了采矿业。近年来,非洲的经济增长也在相当程度上得益于矿产品(以及石油)出口的增长,尤其在矿产资源丰富的国家表现尤为明显。但这仅仅意味着投资拉动经济增长,而不是经济发展。2004年,非洲采矿业吸收外资总额为150亿美元,占全世界矿 A significant proportion of FDI absorbed by Africa flows to the mining industry. In recent years, Africa’s economic growth has also benefited to a considerable extent from the growth of the export of mineral products (and oil), especially in the mineral-rich countries. But this simply means that investment drives economic growth, not economic growth. In 2004, the total foreign investment in Africa’s mining industry was 15 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for the world’s mines