Abstract
WHEN Lord Hailey was formulating the plans for the African Research Survey, Prof. S. H. Frankel was asked to prepare a memorandum on the course of capital investment in Africa. At the time, he doubted whether it would be possible to gather sufficient information in the time available, but eventually he undertook the task. Soon the study outgrew its modest origin and has consequently been published as a separate volume. The work is very fully documented and has more than a hundred detailed tables as well as a number of graphs, but the innumerable footnotes make the book a difficult one to read, more especially as many of the footnotes form really an essential part of the text.
Capital Investment in Africa
Its Course and Effects. By Prof. S. Herbert Frankel. (Issued by the Committee of the African Research Survey under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.) Pp. xvi + 487. (London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1938.) 10s. 6d. net.
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S., L. Capital Investment in Africa. Nature 144, 686–687 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144686a0
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