Part one – Employee Voice in Africa -- Chapter One : Keep Quiet: Unheard Voices of Domestic Workers in Nigeria (By Toyin. Ajibade Adisa, Chima Mordi and Emeka Oruh) -- Chapter Two :The Changing Face of Trade Union Movement in South Africa: From a United Movement against Apartheid to Fighting...

How do expropriations of foreign oil and gas assets affect the net inflow of FDI? We analyze political and legal developments which led to increased government control of natural resource extraction industries in South America in the early 2000s and discuss at which point in time foreign...

Participatory multi-criteria analysis (PMCA) methods are increasingly used to inform decision-makers. The methodology can theoretically be used to enhance energy justice for sustainability transitions due to their participatory elements. This study examines PMCA applications in emerging energy...

This contribution explores the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in growth led economic development. We examine factors which are explanatory to the absorption of FDI into the domestic economy, particularly we focus upon the importance of Human Capital as a vector for absorption. This...

Recent years have seen increasingly aggressive expansion of the extractive economy in the Andean-Amazonian region, as both hard-rock mining and hydrocarbon frontiers move into new territories and deepen their presence in old ones. In ways reminiscent of the film Avatar, this expansion drives...

Regional trade in South America since independence has long been much smaller than would be expected if geography were the only constraint on trade. Several potential explanations exist: low technological and demand complementarities; low productivity; high natural and policy barriers to trade....

This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on the adjustment of debt ratios in 12 emerging markets using firm-level data from 1991 to 2004. The results support the central hypothesis of this paper that adjustment costs are important in explaining firms' adjustment toward...