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

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 …

This paper reviews the experiences of a few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have succeeded in attracting fairly … countries in Africa have achieved in attracting a substantial volume of FDI. Strong leadership, which has helped promote … Africa …

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 …

The recent wave of foreign investment in China''s banks and the prospects of further opening of the banking sector … under the WTO agreement suggest that foreign banks are likely to play an increasingly important role in China. This paper … investments in China''s banks have been minority shareholdings with very limited management involvement. The paper concludes that …

One of the most significant recent developments in world trade has been the entry of China into the World Trade … Organization (WTO). This paper examines the implications of China''s WTO accession for India''s trade, using both econometrics and … computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The paper analyzes how India stands to lose or gain from China''s WTO entry in terms …

entry matters more than access to the rest of China, which is consistent with market fragmentation due to underdeveloped …

, loosely based upon China. We calibrate a benchmark equilibrium, and carry out various counterfactual simulations to analyze …