, health expenditure and indicators of development and poverty reduction in Africa and Asia, with special attention to the role …Analizamos la evolución de la disminución de la pobreza en África y Asia, con especial atención al papel de la …

(Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and the World Bank in particular to celebrate dynamic growth in Asia, Africa … ‘South-South' growth. In this context, the paper offers a stylized comparison of Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia as …The purpose of this paper is to set the issue of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia in two contexts: the changing …

terms of income, particularly in Africa. Top income shares were no higher in settlement colonies, not only because those …

relatively few linkages between MNEs and domestic firms in sub-Saharan Africa compared with Asia. However, when linkages are … present in sub-Saharan Africa, they raise the likelihood of direct knowledge/technology transfers from MNEs to domestic firms … as compared with linked-in firms in Asia. Finally, we do not find that direct knowledge/technology transfers are more …

relatively few linkages between MNEs and domestic firms in sub-Saharan Africa compared with Asia. However, when linkages are … present in sub-Saharan Africa, they raise the likelihood of direct knowledge/technology transfers from MNEs to domestic firms … as compared with linked-in firms in Asia. Finally, we do not find that direct knowledge/technology transfers are more …

countries of Europe, Eurasia, America, Africa, Middle East, South Asia, East Asia and Pacific for the period 1999-2006, and its … countries in East Asia and other areas. Unfortunately economic policies did not give enough priority to manufacturing activities … importance to improve socio-economic development. In the poorest countries of Africa, and other areas, increase of manufacturing …

agricultural export commodities, either primary or processed, are less diversified in sub-Saharan Africa as compared to Asia, but … that diversification evolves more favorably in Africa compared to Asia for primary, as opposed to processed, agricultural … review of the factors of performance in Asia and a discussion of their relevance for Africa is carried out. Thus, while human …