(1963-2011) to analyse industrialisation patterns in Europe, implications of economic backwardness and the role of European … integration in facilitating industrialisation and development. We find evidence of some income convergence in Europe, but mostly …

transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of … sectors. We find that Africa is gradually advancing towards structural transformation but at a very slow speed. The empirical …

about Brexit. The article analyses five issues at stake for the Post-Brexit relationships between Britain, the EU and Africa … with a focus on the Commonwealth Sub-Saharan Africa: market access, FDI, aid, security and partnership . The British … likely this would be possible only at the expense of the poor in Africa and elsewhere. Concerning security cooperation with …

, the EU, and Africa: market access, foreign direct investment (FDI), aid, security, and the nature of the partnership. The … offer something new that other global players with increasing interest in Africa, such as China, do not already have on …

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries … persistence in industrialisation and (iii) Instrumental Quantile Regressions (QR) to account for initial levels of … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive …

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation us ing a panel of 49 African … persistence in industrialisation and (iii) Instrumental Quantile Regressions (QR) to account for initial levels of … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive …

This paper reviews recent work on the economics of fast growing developing country cities, with a focus on Africa. It … sets out some of the broad facts about African urbanisation and summarises two recent pieces of research work. The first …