China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … investment is small, though growing rapidly. China's attraction to resource-rich countries is no different from Western …

The physical or absolute geography of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A …

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …

-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and …

Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for …

proffer and explore the proposition that South Africa could serve as the gateway for harnessing MNC geese flying from third … countries into the SACU region, in time propelling regional development through knowledge and investment spillovers, and serving … African gateways are emerging as alternatives to South Africa. And some SACU governments would prefer to build regional value …

wars in Sub-Saharan Africa. Another finding with the new dataset is that commodity price downturns also sparked civil wars … beyond Sub-Saharan Africa since 1980. Effects are sizable relative to the baseline risk of civil war outbreak. My conclusions …