This essay explores the role of the state in promoting exports and industrialization in the quest for transformation of …

Aiming at a better understanding of the extent to which Africa-focused research has helped develop context … with an African context. A systematic search resulted in 271 articles with African data and 139 Africa-focused articles … society outlets. An in-depth analysis of the 139 Africa-focused articles shows an important imbalance in terms of publication …

huge budget deficits by the time it joined the Union of South Africa in 1910. After the discovery of diamonds, competition … the study have important implications for our understanding of both settler colonialism in Sub-Sahara Africa as well as …

policy toward sub-Saharan Africa. Has AGOA fulfilled its promise to serve as a catalyst for African economic development? The … Textiles and Clothing and China's accession to the WTO, the article considers AGOA's effect on Africa's nascent textile and …

This paper reviews the status of Agricultural Biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa. It addresses the potential economic … benefits to Sub-Saharan Africa and the effect biotechnology policies may have on growth, production and poverty reduction. The … property rights (IPRs) and market concentration on the development and diffusion of biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa is …

Africa has produced mutual benefits for both and whether Africa is reaping the necessary benefits required for poverty … China's extraordinary level of interest in Africa - in particular, its economic engagement with perceived repressive regimes … - African leaders view China's entry as a means of pulling Africa onto the path of globalization. It is thus important that …

The study of long term growth in Africa has recently been invigorated by the work of economists. To date, this … explain a chronic failure of growth in Africa. This chapter reviews some periods of economic growth in the past two centuries …