This paper, produced for the Commonwealth Secretariat, asks what climate change means for the competitiveness of African LDCs' export trade. It first surveys the export profiles of African LDCs, then surveys what we know about climate change's physical impacts in Africa, as well as considering...

This book demonstrates how the growing economic power of China and India is already influencing the growth patterns of African countries, particularly oil- and commodities-exporting ones. As world prices for commodities rise, producer countries in Africa and throughout the world will gain, but...

Introduction -- Trade potential and bottlenecks in East Africa: a gravity approach -- Trade Complementarities between Europe and Tanzania -- The Effect of the tripartite free trade area on trade flow in Southern and Eastern Africa -- Investment climate and international integration of firms in...

Introduction and Overview -- Evolution of African Trade During 1948 - -- Inhibitions to Growth and Transformation of African Trade -- Structural Transformation of African Trade: A Primer -- Conclusions and Recommendations.

Adoption of NEP in 1990-91 was designed primarily to replace slowly growing closed Indian economy by rapidly growing open economy. The study determines the degree of openness of Indian economy and the profile of time path traversed towards this goal under NEP. The opening up of the closed...