Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of …

using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …

Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … now Africa's third largest trading partner behind the EU and the US. The Chinese FDI stock in Africa has grown from $49 …

sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint …

Each of the world's largest retailers---Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, and Metro---entered China after 1995. Their … subsequent expansion in China may have influenced Chinese exports through two channels. First, they may have enhanced bilateral …

nearly 600 billion dollars, while China's official net creditor position to the rest of the world is overstated by about 50 …

Currently proposals are actively circulating in China to move to a unified enterprise tax structure with similar tax …