The currency premium is one of the three components of the differential between local and foreign interest rates. Emerging economies such as South Africa typically face positive interest rate differentials, i.e., a higher cost of capital than developed economies. In this paper we aim at...

When the OECD Development Centre launched research in 2005 to document the economic, political and social impacts of China's and India's economic growth on sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, the arrival (or resurgence) of new important players had triggered concerns among traditional donors....

<heading format="display" id="h1" implicit="yes" level="1">Abstract</heading> (1251) Paul Kamau with Dorothy McCormick and Nicolas Pinaud Copyright 2009 The Authors. Journal compilation 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

<heading format="display" id="h1" implicit="yes" level="1">Abstract</heading> (1248) Andrea Goldstein, Nicolas Pinaud, Helmut Reisen and Dorothy McCormick Copyright 2009 The Authors. Journal compilation 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.