This paper reviews recent work on the economics of fast growing developing country cities, with a focus on Africa. It … argues that coordination failure can create multiple equilibria and divergent paths of development, some in which cities are …

policy options, the dataset is disaggregated into fundamental characteristics of African development based on income levels …, legal origins, natural resources and landlockedness. While the hypothesis is invalid in baseline Africa, low income and … characteristics of development. Policy implications, caveats and directions for future research are discussed. …

reform complementarities is estimated using a panel of 45 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. The cross-country, panel …

With the growing presence of China in Africa over the last two decades, this paper investigates the impact of Chinese … foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic performance in Africa, which we compare to that of the traditional economic … Africa has somehow altered the preexisting relationship between Africa and its traditional partners. Our results, using the …

Although trade liberalization is being actively promoted as a key component in development strategies, theoretically …

shows that channelling resources into the development of Africa’s financial sector could yield shared income distribution …This study employs macrodata on 42 African countries to examine whether remittances and financial development …. Robust evidence based on the dynamic GMM estimator shows that: (i) remittances heighten income inequality in Africa, (ii …

number of businesses within Africa are affected by these barriers. Notwithstanding, there is little empirical knowledge on … how they interact and affect trade flows within Africa. In this paper, we assess the effects of trade facilitation … improves trade performance in Africa; the better the level of trade facilitation, the larger the extent of trade flows. From a …

stock market development. The study therefore recommends that investors in selected the SubSahara Africa (SSA) stock market …This study examines the dynamic impacts of oil prices on stock market development in four oil exporting sub … product, inflation and the corruption index have a positive and significant impact on stock market development. However, there …

This study based on a panel of 37 sub-Saharan Africa countries over the period of 2000-2019 explores the effect of a … Communications Technology good imports, internet, mobile, and secure internet servers, and financial development measured by private … servers were insignificant in adversely affecting economic diversification. As regards financial development, it was …