challenges for Africa today. The significance of Chinese private-sector investment is already visible in the burgeoning … manufacturing sector in some parts of Africa, and the trend will continue to grow in the near future. The underlying force behind …-intensive firms to relocate to other parts of the developing world, including Africa. African host country governments can respond to …

's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …." Reviewing the processes of production and reproduction, it explains why most slaves in pre-colonial Africa were women and …

-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis … much of Asia and Africa, the most successful enhancement of people's capabilities has come through the action of hybrid …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that …

infrastructure to reap benefits. There would be large economic gains if Africa were to close the digital infrastructure gap relative …

growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in …

on forest clearing and biodiversity in eight Congo Basin countries. The paper demonstrates how the detailed analysis can … biodiversity threats by creating an index that combines and synthesizes several measures of biodiversity loss and impacts. It then …

Conservation of high-biodiversity tropical forests is sometimes justified on the basis of assumed hydrological benefits … biodiversity and hydrology for two scenarios - historical forest conversion and the potential future conversion of the most …

A tradable development rights (TDR) program focusing on biodiversity conservation faces a crucial problem defining … range of biodiversity conserved but could increase the opportunity cost of conservation. The issue is relevant to Brazil …