The vision of a global future spread through the world like wildfire in the last decade - exhilarating for some, alarming for others, apparently inexorable for all. As free-market advocates would have it, "there is no alternative?"Reclaiming the Future" tells a different story - that...

1. African smallholders and their market environment -- 2.African Agricultural Value Chains: A Brief Historical Overview -- 3. Economic theory and value chain governance -- 4. The evolution of Agricultural Value Chains in Africa -- 5. Small holders and Markets -- 6. Product quality and...

Part I. Context -- Chapter 1: Africa’s economies -- Chapter 2: China’s surge in growth facilitated by Special Economic Zones -- Chapter 3: The Chinese Special Economic Zone Model and China of the future -- Part II. The Emergence of Chinese Special Economic Zones in Africa -- Chapter 4: China...

Using manufacturing and services firm-level data for 30 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, this paper shows that taxation is not a significant driver for the location of foreign firms in SSA, while other investment climate factors, such as infrastructure, human capital, and insitutions, are....