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 article studies the effects of Chinese aid on economic development in Africa. We geographically match Chinese aid … in Africa to the satellite nightlight and other variables. Using a grid-cell panel dataset, we find that Chinese aid …, particularly infrastructure projects, has significant and robust positive impacts on the economic development in Africa. Mechanism …

This book is a collection of essays that seeks to answer three interrelated sets of questions about Africa's recent … growth recovery. The first set of essays addresses questions about the drivers and durability of Africa's growth. How … different is current economic performance compared to Africa's long history of boom-bust cycles? Have African countries learned …