"This book addresses the strengths, opportunities, and weaknesses of FDI in developing nations along with major perspectives building on the existing available literature in the area of subject. FDI has become an important source of private external finance for developing countries. It covers...

This book demonstrates how the growing economic power of China and India is already influencing the growth patterns of African countries, particularly oil- and commodities-exporting ones. As world prices for commodities rise, producer countries in Africa and throughout the world will gain, but...

This is volume 2 of a three-volume publication on Bangladesh's trade prospects. Bangladesh's ambition is to build on its very solid growth and poverty reduction achievements, and accelerate growth to become a middle income country by 2021, and share prosperity more widely amongst its citizens....

This paper exploits information from two different datasets to provide a novel and multi-dimensional picture of the engagement of all sub-Saharan African countries in global value chains (GVCs). It documents in detail the nature of the underlying data and the way it is used to construct several...

Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Overview -- Mohamed A. Ramady -- Part 1 Regional Structural Reforms and Engines of Change -- 1 Working for a Sustainable GCC Future: Reflections on Policies and Practices, Nabil Sultan -- 2 Deepening the GCC Debt Market: The Saudi Arabia...