Similar Search Results

How Africa borrows from China: and why Mombasa Port is not collateral for Kenya's standard gauge railway

Bräutigam, Deborah A.; Bhalaki, Vijay; Deron, Laure; … - 2022

In December 2018, a leaked letter from Kenya's Auditor General warned that the Kenya Ports Authority's assets - of … which Mombasa Port is the most valuable - risked being taken over by China Eximbank if Kenya defaulted on the Standard Gauge … Railway loans. The rumor that Kenya had used Mombasa Port as collateral for the railway became widely accepted globally as …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206379

Are they really being served? : assessing effective infrastructure access and quality in 15 Kenyan cities

Gulyani, Sumila; Rizvi, Andrea; Talukdar, Debabrata - 2019

This paper proposes a framework that examines three levels of access to infrastructure-nominal, effective, and quality-adjusted access. Most conventional indicators measure nominal access-whether a household has physical access to a service in or near the house. By contrast, effective access...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007974

The role of historical Christian missions in the location of World Bank aid in Africa

Alpino, Matteo; Hammersmark, Eivind Moe - Weltbankgruppe - 2020

This article documents a positive and sizable correlation between the location of historical Christian missions and the allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of geographical and historical control variables that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228758

Economic partnership agreements and the export competitiveness of Africa

Brenton, Paul (contributor); Hoppe, Mombert (contributor); … - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003745101

Cash transfers and temptation goods : a review of global evidence

Evans, David K.; Popova, Anna - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010378930

Poverty traps, aid, and growth

Kraay, Aart; Raddatz, Claudio E. - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003085178

Grants and debt forgiveness in Africa : a descriptive analysis

Hernández, Leonardo; Katada, Saori N. - 1996

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000945845

The search for the key : aid, investment, and policies in Africa

Dollar, David; Easterly, William - 1999

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001369247

Malaria control and infant mortality in Africa

Cogneau, Denis; Rossi, Pauline - 2017

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011692480

Are trade preferences a Panacea? : the African Growth and Opportunity Act and African exports

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade policy changes in the United States around the turn of the 21st century to address this question. The expansion of Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) products for less...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007994