economic development project. We leverage an unusual feature of Kenya's nationwide electrification program: the quasi …

We apply this method to a World Bank development project in Kenya. Our evidence is consistent with higher levels of …

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 …

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

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

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

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 …