Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … now Africa's third largest trading partner behind the EU and the US. The Chinese FDI stock in Africa has grown from $49 …

driven mostly by global commodity prices. In order to better understand the determinants of export success in Africa we … interviewed several exporting entrepreneurs, government officials and NGOs. Some of the determinants that we document are …

In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies … small, portion of the elevated growth in sub Saharan Africa in the three years before the Financial Crisis and also in the …

"Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that … often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be … uncorrelated with ex-post firm-level responses, further evidence that deals rather than rules prevail in Africa. Strikingly, the …

prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of 'free' migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that …. In Africa today, economic growth has faltered, its economies have fallen further behind the high-wage OECD leaders, and …

Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments … poverty alleviation; and that the constraints imposed by Sub-Saharan Africa's human and physical geography are not core …