Quote Originally Posted by robocop187 View Post
I do not believe that we should give up on nationalization and privatization.
Who is this "we" of whom you speak?

Investment policy and setting investment goals are the exclusive prerogative of the nation where the investments are taking place. Decisions on when and whether to invest are, in the West at least, up to private corporations. Neither are under control of the US or any Western government.

Any attempt to externally impose investment goals would have to include the elephant in the African foreign investment drawing room, China. What reason would they have to cooperate?

It would be lovely to see a middle class emerging across Africa, but if we're talking about building that into a foreign policy goal we have to first realistically assess our ability to make that happen.

When did it become our business to set investment goals for other countries... whoever "we" are meant to be in this case?