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Capital flight and foreign direct investment in Africa : an investigation of the role of natural resource endowment

Ndikumana, Léonce; Sarr, Mare - 2016

investment (FDI) inflows in Africa and capital flight from the continent over the past decades. It specifically explores two … questions: Is FDI a potential driver of capital flight? And, is natural resource endowment a possible channel for the capital … flight-FDI link? The econometric analysis is based on 32 African countries over the period 1970-2013 using dynamic panel data …

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It worked in China, so why not in Africa? : the political economy challenge of special economic zones

Farole, Thomas; Moberg, Lotta - 2014

African countries have sought to replicate the success of East Asia by implementing special economic zones. Despite decades of international experience, there remains no blueprint for successful special economic zone policies, and the majority of special economic zones fall well below...

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Prioritizing rural investments in Africa : a hybrid evaluation approach applied to Uganda

Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James - 2013

Prioritizing public investments requires information on relative returns that are difficult to derive from disparate evaluation studies. This paper presents a 'hybrid' approach that combines ex post evaluation data with an economy-wide model for experimenting ex ante with alternative investment...

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Aid and investment in statistics for Africa

Round, Jeffery I. - 2012

Over many past decades countries in sub-Saharan Africa have received extensive bilateral and multilateral aid in support of the production of relevant, timely, and good quality data and statistics. But assessing aid effectiveness in the statistical area is a complex matter. Many datasets are...

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Wohlmuth, Karl (contributor) - 2001

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Linked in by foreign direct investment : the role of firm-level relationships in knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia

Newman, Carol; Page, John M.; Rand, John; Shimeles, Abebe; … - 2018

attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinational enterprises (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms linked to … likely to occur via FDI than through trade. As such, our results are not consistent with the view that tacit knowledge …

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Africa's progress in regional and global economic integration - towards new trade and investment policies

Alabi, Reuben Adeolu (ed.); Gutowski, Achim (ed.); … - 2016

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Regional perspectives on labour and employment

Bass, Hans H. (ed.); Kappel, Robert (contributor); … - 1997

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Human dimensions of adjustment

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Are biofuels good for African development? : an analytical framework with evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - 2010

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their dependence on imported fossil fuels, but also stimulate economic development, particularly in poorer rural areas. Skeptics, on the other hand, view biofuels as a threat to food...

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