countries. The illusion of sustained African apparel exports is created by late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting boom …-bust patterns in Southern Africa and insignificant responses in Central and West Africa. Firm-level customs data reveal that even in … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …

with the literature arguing that greater trade openness would unequivocally lead to higher growth in Africa. -- openness …

cointegration relationship when country groups are considered. -- Africa ; energy consumption ; economic growth ; panel …

spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a …-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …

African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa … may work for all countries in Africa. …

-to-date information about the cyclical stage of the global economy and of major emerging and developing regions including Africa …

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 … registered Chinese firms investing in Africa between 1998 and 2012. We use key words in project descriptions to code the …

suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract enforcement (depending on the …