each tradition and their historical development and applies both to a recent example of policy making in South Africa …

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become common across Southern Africa in the past 20 years. In line with experiences …-cutting blockages to growth. In East Asia, this approach was able to build on a broader national industrialization trajectory. In … Southern Africa, by contrast, it has proved unable to offset the main constraints on investment. These centre on deep …

This paper examines the impact of trade openness on economic growth for the SADC region in Africa over the period of … 1990 to 2003. Based on a structure consistent with the endogenous growth theory, we find that trade openness has had a … strong positive impact on economic growth in this region over this period. Our results are robust across alternative …

Africa in order to contribute to an assessment of the benefits of growth (or the cost of a lack of growth) for poverty … achieved high levels of growth in the 1990s, and that also experienced important reductions in poverty, even though growth was … Cape Verde) that also achieved high levels of growth in the 1990s, but where due to data and methodological issues, there …

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become common across Southern Africa in the past 20 years. In line with experiences …-cutting blockages to growth. In East Asia, this approach was able to build on a broader national industrialization trajectory. In … Southern Africa, by contrast, it has proved unable to offset the main constraints on investment. These centre on deep …

The New Nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact, compared …

social characteristics of ethnic groups in Africa. We find that the duration of colonial rule caused a dramatic shift in … gender roles in Africa by increasing the relative status of men in lineage and inheritance systems but also reducing polygyny …