Recent development economic literatures theorize that South-South trade and foreign investment may have a larger impact on economic growth in developing economies than North-South trade and investment, since investors from the South are more familiar with local developing markets and business...

Purpose This paper aims to test the political-economy hypothesis that country sizes are related with constraints associated with Chinese trade. Design/methodology/approach This study applies a generalized linear mixed approach on panel data of Southern African (henceforth SADC) economies from...