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 …

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …

the consequent stake in economic stability. This paper examines why such a process has not happened in Africa. The … neither the political weight nor the analytic capacity to play this role effectively. Yet in Africa, housing has never …

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

'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 …

selected countries in Africa over the years 2001-2012. It uses data from five emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China …, and South Africa) and advanced countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States … emerging economies and advanced countries has increased labor productivity growth and employment in Africa, when human capital …

biodiversity loss in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The paper uses 500-meter cells to estimate the relationship between the … transport times to market and lower vehicle maintenance costs. The estimated response parameters and a composite biodiversity … indicator are used to compute an index of expected biodiversity loss from road upgrading in each 500 meter cell. The results …