Rezension sowoport.de: Die vorliegende, auf ein Gutachten für das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft zurückgehende Analyse untersucht für ausgewählte Märkte, welche Schritte zur Deregulierung unternommen worden sind, und fragt nach Konsequenzen für die Zahl der Anbieter, die...

China has become a major player in sovereign lending towards Africa during the past two decades but has recently been faced with increasing defaults. A new African debt crisis is looming. • Differences in the motives of sovereign lending between China and Western creditor countries contribute...

This paper is one of the first to show systematically that the motives for sovereign lending to African countries differed considerably between China and Western countries during the last two decades. While Chinese lending mainly served its own economic or geopolitical objectives, which is...

<Para ID="Par1">We show that key functions are spatially clustered with, or dispersed from, each other even within manufacturing industries in West Germany, and that these clustering or dispersion patterns have changed significantly during recent decades. Estimating levels and changes (1992–2007) of...</para>