This book offers insight into international trade and foreign direct investment competitiveness in Africa. It examines two policies frequently used to enhance international competitiveness in Sub-Saharan African economies: exchange rate policy and productivity-related policy.

National economies are linked through flows of capital and goods. This book addresses those linkages, analyzes their benefits for economic development, and evaluates a country’s opportunities to reap the best possible rewards by influencing the linkages. The book focuses on the role of product...

Introduction -- Determinants of Institutional Quality: a Case Study of IMF Programme Countries -- Institutional Quality, Macroeconomic Stabilization and Economic Growth: a Case Study of IMF Programme Countries -- IMF Programmes and Institutional Quality Determinants: Economic Scenarios in...

Einleitung -- Rahmenbedingungen -- Bevorzugte Investitionsregionen -- Bevorzugte Investitionsbranchen -- Markteintrittsstrategien -- Marktbearbeitungsentscheidungen -- Organisation -- Personalmanagement -- Public Affairs Management -- Fallstudien -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick: zehn...

As investment in new ventures across the African continent grows, and enterprises multiply in a wide variety of sectors, the next wave of challenges and opportunities has become apparent to those with the experience and vision to understand them. In this book for investors, institutions,...

Internationalisierung wissensintensiver Unternehmensdienstleister -- Standortsysteme internationaler Wirtschaftskanzleien -- Gründe für die Auswahl neuer Märkte -- Anpassung an Kontexte auf neu erschlossenen Märkten.

Rahmenbedingungen -- Bevorzugte Investitionsregionen -- Markteintrittsstrategien -- Marktbearbeitungsentscheidungen -- Organisation -- Personalmanagement -- Controlling -- Public Affairs Management -- Fallstudien -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick: zehn Erfolgsfaktoren ausländischer Unternehmungen...

This book examines HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities, impacts and responses in the socioeconomic and cultural context of Sub-Saharan Africa. With contributions from social scientists and public health experts, the volume identifies gender inequality and poverty as the main causes of the HIV epidemic in...

This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future. Contributions examine a range of social policy issues around healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare, and highlight important conceptual and policy issues for rebuilding Africa