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’ …

; FDI ; policy credibility ; MDGs ; "policy space" ; Mali ; Africa ; investment promotion ; poverty alleviation …There is a stark contrast between the ambitious investment promotion efforts of many least developed countries (LDCs … address domestic infrastructure and investment gaps, this situation cannot be a positive signal for investors (either domestic …

. This paper looks at historical ties between India and Africa. It identifies trade and investment patterns in recent decades …India imports more from Africa than Africa does from India. A large share of Indian imports from Africa are oil and … minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion …

Sub-Saharan Africa as elsewhere, a country’s attractiveness as a destination for investment and its competitive advantage …Investors all too often assign a uniform broad - brush risk rating to Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, with over 40 nations and … a landmass nearly twice that of Europe, there is clearly reason to suggest risk - return in Sub-Saharan Africa is unique …

her operations and local businesses; exporting low quality products to Africa; and the emergence of China hindering Africa … eight main strands include, China: targeting nations with abundant natural resources; focusing on countries with bad …'s development. …

This study dissects with great acuteness some of the big questions on China-Africa relations in order to debunk … direction of China-Africa relations. In the mean, the relationship from an economic standpoint is promising and encouraging but … management. A number of positive signs suggest that China is heading toward the direction which would provide openings for a …

the survey. The paper puts some structure on China's economic diplomatic strategies and discusses lessons for Africa … development because the Beijing model has grown to become an unavoidable process which can only be neglected at the cost of … model has failed to deliver on a number of objectives. This is increasingly evident because China's economic diplomacy has …

Drawing on our recent work on local effects of Chinese development projects in Africa, this review article highlights a …

continuous measure of SEZ exposure, which we link to the LFSs at the districtyear level for 2013-2019. In a difference …