Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … now Africa's third largest trading partner behind the EU and the US. The Chinese FDI stock in Africa has grown from $49 …

Natural resources have driven both growth and conflict in modern Africa. We model the interaction of parties engaged in … illumination across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, we find evidence confirming each of the model's predictions. Structural …

Russia is often considered a perfect example of the so-called "resource curse"--the argument that natural resource … around the world suggests that for countries like Russia with an established oil industry, even large increases in the scale … of mineral incomes have only a minor effect on the political regime. In addition, Russia--a country with an …

We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share …