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disinvestment

Withdrawal of investments in a country for political reasons. The term is also used in economics to describe non-replacement of stock as it wears out.

It is generally applied to the ostensive removal of funds from South Africa in the last years of apartheid by such multinational companies as General Motors and to the withdrawal of private investment funds (by universities, pension funds, and other organizations) from portfolios doing business in South Africa.

Disinvestment may be motivated by fear of loss of business in the home market caused by adverse publicity or by fear of loss of foreign resources if the local government changes.



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