This paper focuses on the distances in time and economic space between China and Sub-Saharan Africa, which are today quite the reverse of the 1960's. It analyses income gaps between China and Africa, their patterns of per capital income growth and the “conditioning” factors behind persistent...

This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union. The authors find that, under standard import price and substitution...