primarily toward policy makers, potential private sector investors, and development partners. What can Nigeria do to take …

This paper critically reviews the impact of globalization on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since the early 1980s. The large … further undermined prospects for SSA economic development as productive capacities in many sectors are not sufficiently …

Africa’s precrisis growth and poverty reduction was the result of increased external resources, a buoyant global …

investment and investment governance on sustainable development have evolved, it is not clear that IIAs, as currently designed …International investment agreements (“IIAs”) provide enforceable protections to foreign investors based on the premise … that enforceable investor protections will stimulate greater foreign investment flows, which, in turn, are assumed to …

reorienting the strategic partnership between China and Africa away from debt diplomacy towards genuine partnership or a breaking … influence Africa’s development stories in a post-Covid world. We examine whether the crisis could serve as a catalyst for … Sino-African relations may change and how this might enable Africa to ‘do development differently’ …

its implications for development. Drawing on extensive research, including field work in Africa and interviews with key … necessary conditions for an IRP development in Africa …The subject of this article is the application of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) to Africa's cultural economy, and …

. This chapter discusses the potential of social impact investment for developing countries, highlighting several examples to … intended impact and expanding the evidence base. The public sector can promote social impact investment, for example by … populations. The chapter makes recommendations for increasing the reach and the scale of social impact investment …