Existing work on China's economic influence in Africa refers to Africa in broad terms, thereby generalizing the results … paper remedies this by focusing on a single, oil-importing country: Kenya. The paper examines China's economic presence in …. Second, although China represents a large potential market for local exporters, the study finds that China has a better …

productivity across male and female plot managers in Nigeria. The analysis utilizes the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method, which … allows for decomposing the unconditional gender gap into (i) the portion caused by observable differences in the factors of … production, while there are no significant gender differences in the South. In the decomposition results, the structural effect …

development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …

the differential development impacts of alternative road construction and prioritize various proposals, using Nigeria as a … gross domestic product for Nigeria. Although the measure of transport is the most accurate possible, it is still endogenous … costs in Nigeria will increase crop revenue, non-agricultural income, the wealth index, and local gross domestic product …

This report reviews the literature on the links between energy access, welfare, and gender in order to provide evidence … on where gender considerations in the energy sector matter and how they might be addressed. Prepared as a background … document for the 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development, and part of the Social Development …

A void in the literature on the business environment is how it evolves over time. Focusing on China during its crucial … better educated, with more diverse sectoral experience. Market competition increased over time, especially after China …

The enterprise reforms of the 1990s profoundly changed the structure of the economy in China. With the deepening of … the National Bureau of Statistics of China in 1998-2007 to examine the role of different firm characteristics in … volatility at the firm level in China. The results suggest that in general, productivity volatility at the firm level has …

requirements in China. This paper finds that Chinese cities whose top officials were older than age 58 were 20 percent less likely …-varying selectivity of privatizations and highlight the crucial role that state-owned enterprise privatizations played in China's economic …