The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … Lesotho; and has slightly declined in Ghana. The underlying factors with regard to the apparent increase hinge on the … Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and …

industry. Based on a large data set for China’s large and medium-size enterprises, the estimation results show that technology …

examine monopoly (South Africa) and duopoly (South Africa, Australia) with a competitive fringe (US, Canada, Poland, China and …

This paper investigates the primacy of foreign direct investment inflows in liberalizing China’s economy and whether … disparities. By examining the history of FDI inflows in China, it becomes evident that FDI inflows were an instrumental part in … institutional and technological development in China. I extend the argument to take into account how these developed infrastructures …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

cooperation related investment (ECI). While there are suggestions that it is an extension of China‟s soft power aimed at … resource richness is not economically meaningful. Finally, while there is some support for the popular wisdom that China … any, for the hypotheses that China favours doing business with countries where political rights are limited. …