Africa. By overcoming the difficulties in obtaining trade finance, African SMEs will be able to expand into foreign markets … involved with their international transactions) is structured trade and commodity finance. In trading with China, African SMEs … market (which is the focus of this study). China Construction Bank (Johannesburg branch), through their association with Rand …

in two districts in Kenya between May 2005 and September 2005. Multinomial logit models and ordered probit models were …, Household Model, Multinomial Logistic Regression, Ordered Logistic Regression, Kenya. …

teenstelling met die kritici van ontwikkelingsteun wat handhaaf dat steun wat aan ontwikkelende lande, veral in Afrika, gegee word …

the economy. For over a long time the delivery of infrastructure in Africa has been the domain of the public sector … very low in Africa. The research noted that certain obstacles at macro level of the economy are responsible for the low … used to attract private sector participation in infrastructure delivery in Africa. One method that is gaining popularity in …

The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … that fertility has increased in some countries--Kenya and Cameroon; has remained almost stable in Benin, Ivory Coast and …, the estimates posit a decline in both infant and child mortality in Kenya, Benin and Ivory Coast; infant mortality in …

macroeconomic shocks such as increases in interest rates make firm debts unsustainable as experienced in Kenya in the 1990s …

panel data set of firms in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania that spans a period of five years. We find that the main determinant of … growth of firms in Africa. We find no evidence that larger firms have faster rates of productivity or input growth, or are …