In China, central government subsidies to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) – the archetypal case usually referred to … times the average per capital rural household income in the TAR. Similarly, investment in fixed assets – most of it also … tasks first envisaged during the Maoist era. One is the state-led engineering of a deep integration of the region into China …

Judging by the provisions of its investment code and the apparent stability of the macro-economy, Ethiopia seems to … offer a favourable investment climate for the private sector. However, Ethiopian manufacturing has experienced a declining … rate of investment since the mid 1990s. Like other Sub-Saharan African countries, more than half of manufacturing firms in …