In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …

, constrained countries such as China moved strongly into precisely the markets in which AGOA countries had specialized. Although …

This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its …

We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share …

in China. A short-lived alliance between the U.S.S.R. and China led to the construction of 150 "Million-Rouble plants" in …

-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …

We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct … of this model are estimated using province-level data on foreign direct investment and trade flows in China, over the … China may find it politically difficult to follow through with liberalizing its trade and investment regimes, such as under …