In the past 15 years, the world has witnessed the large scale introduction of antitrust/competition policy as an instrument of market-facilitating government policy. Building the capacity of young antitrust institutions in the developing world and in transition economies is a means to improving...

Amidst intense debt relief, and alongside dramatically improved governance, investment and growth increased substantially across Africa during the past decade. This paper interprets the timing of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, launched by the IMF and World Bank in the...

Global demarcations exist between development aid and foreign direct investment. Rigorous statistical analysis that contrasts the relative homogeneous and heterogeneous influences of time-series panel data allows regions in the developing world to define themselves endogenously. The results...