What role does China play in Africa''s development? What drives China''s increasing economic involvement in the … to financing have together moved commercial activities-trade and investment-to the center of China-Africa economic … government policies, markets for each other''s exports, Africa''s demand for infrastructure, and differences in China''s approach …

Investment has grown rapidly in China in recent years, reaching more than 40 percent of GDP. Despite good progress on … bank and enterprise reforms, weaknesses remain that could contribute to inefficient investment decisions. Manufacturing …, infrastructure, and real estate have been the drivers of fixed asset investment. Econometric analysis presented in the paper suggests …

direct investment is also substantial. We explain these features in terms of a conventional neoclassical growth model-with no …

of the SEZ program, the paper (i) constructs an alternative control group including future SEZ program participants and … districts adjacent to SEZ hosts; and (ii) employs a propensity score weighting technique. The study finds that entry of SEZs … suggest that land values in SEZ districts tend to rise while wage levels remain largely unchanged relative to other districts …

The local sourcing of intermediate products is one the main channels for foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers …

This paper reviews the experiences of a few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have succeeded in attracting fairly … large amounts of foreign investment. The review indicates that sustained efforts to promote political and macroeconomic … countries in Africa have achieved in attracting a substantial volume of FDI. Strong leadership, which has helped promote …

Africa lags behind other regions in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). In some circumstances, there are … other regions. Furthermore, since monetary policy can range from very transparent to very opaque, we assess Africa''s track … extent of transparency. Our findings suggest that this is a promising line of inquiry because Africa does stand apart from …

Over the last decade China's investment in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased substantially in volume …, we demonstrate that since mid-2010s China's overseas investment has tilted toward sectors where China has a comparative …. Moreover, China's rising overseas investment can be linked to the rebalancing of Chinese economy, and LAC stands to benefit …