This paper investigates the costs and benefits of concluding double tax treaties with investment hubs. Based on a … sample of 41 African economies from 1985-2015, the results suggest that signing treaties with investment hubs is not … theoretical model, the paper investigates the role of treaty shopping in driving nominal investment flows and provides indirect …

Africa will account for 80 percent of the projected 4 billion increase in the global population by 2100. The …

to investment and growth, they reduce the government's ability to increase supporters' consumption. The model predicts … that resource abundance is conductive to poor policies and, consequently, to low investment. The implications of the model …

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Spillovers from South Africa into the other members of the Souther Africa Customs Union (known as the BLNS for … Botstwana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) are substantial reflecting sizeable real and financial interlinkages. However …, shocks to real GDP growth in South Africa do not seem to systematically affect growth developments in BLNS countries as a …

The paper explores the quality of the recent high-growth episode in sub-Saharan Africa by examining the following two …

This paper examines the determinants of net interest margins in four regional blocks in Sub-Saharan Africa and one … for the view that market structure is also partly responsible for high net interest margins in Sub-Saharan Africa. If …