achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post …

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …

The central argument of this study is that given the magnitude of the investment in infrastructure that is required …, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to … sources. These include domestic revenues (which already fund a large proportion of infrastructure), investments by China and …

The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA … the same period for South East Asia and India, for instance. Meanwhile, human development had also resurged since the mid …

relatively few linkages between MNEs and domestic firms in sub-Saharan Africa compared with Asia. However, when linkages are … present in sub-Saharan Africa, they raise the likelihood of direct knowledge/technology transfers from MNEs to domestic firms … as compared with linked-in firms in Asia. Finally, we do not find that direct knowledge/technology transfers are more …

Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 … and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …

Over the past two decades, donors increasingly linked foreign aid to democracy objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet … and how foreign aid affects the process of democratic consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa by examining two potential …