three late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting the boom-bust pattern in Southern Africa and the never-significant response in … Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export …

This study briefly summarizes the development experiences of special economic zones in China and Africa, the lessons … that Africa can learn from China, and the preliminary results of the Chinese investments in special economic zones in … Africa. The study makes recommendations on how to unleash the power of special economic zones and industrial zones in Africa …

Favorable global economic conditions supported a turnaround in economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2017, easing …

allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …

the we are serious about Africa's development and inclusion; second, whether we understand globally the nature of human … acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). More than 13 million Africans have already died of AIDS, 23 million are now living … with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS, and 10 million African children have been orphaned by AIDS. The 21 …

Countries in Africa should strive to maintain trade flows during the crisis to secure access to medical goods and … international value chains. By joining together, countries in Africa can implement coordinated trade measures that result in better …

China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local …This paper investigates China's influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007 …