microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Kenya still face major challenges with efficiently and effectively delivering microfinance …

This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …

This study dissects with great acuteness some of the big questions on China-Africa relations in order to debunk … direction of China-Africa relations. In the mean, the relationship from an economic standpoint is promising and encouraging but … management. A number of positive signs suggest that China is heading toward the direction which would provide openings for a …

the development and bargaining power of sub-Saharan Af-rica (SSA) in relation to the EU. However, Africa's least developed …), to the detriment of regional integration and pro-poor growth. However, mounting competi-tion between China and other … global players for Africa's resources is resulting in windfall profits for Africa. The latter is leading to a revival of …

To empirically examine the unbiased effect of management practice on firm productivity, this paper aims to suggest an … study, we use Korean manufacturing firm-level data that contains information on management score and financial statement …. The results of the instrumental variable estimation show that better management practice leads to higher level of firm …