avenues and resources for transformation. -- Africa ; economic development ; economic history ; exports ; industrialization …

), Making Nations, Creating Strangers. States and Citizenship in Africa. African Social Studies Series, Leiden: Brill, ISBN … 9004157905, 282 pages. * Simpson, Andrew (ed.) (2008), Language and National Identity in Africa. Oxford, New York: Oxford … related subjects. The new nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact …

Six years after enactment, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) remains the cornerstone of U.S. economic … policy toward sub-Saharan Africa. Has AGOA fulfilled its promise to serve as a catalyst for African economic development? The … Textiles and Clothing and China's accession to the WTO, the article considers AGOA's effect on Africa's nascent textile and …

Nunn (2008) found a negative relationship between past slave exports and economic performance within Africa. Here we … raiding outside Africa, and find evidence that questions the validity of such suggestion. In addition, our reading of the …

In this thesis, we will explore what led to the economic development and growth or lack of, in four African Countries …

persistence of inefficient institutions in developing countries. Colonization, social fragmentation and the existence and use of … single factor on its own can explain the persistence of inefficient institutions; rather, it is the combination of exogenous … and endogenous factors that shape institutions …

China. China has been a longstanding partner of Africa since time immemorial through series of trade and cultural exchanges … google forms with questionnaires administered to participants of ten (10) and six (6) tertiary institutions in Ghana and Togo … traditional multilateral bodies, China prefer to deal with Africa on an individual level without going public on matters relating …