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 …

number of businesses within Africa are affected by these barriers. Notwithstanding, there is little empirical knowledge on … how they interact and affect trade flows within Africa. In this paper, we assess the effects of trade facilitation … improves trade performance in Africa; the better the level of trade facilitation, the larger the extent of trade flows. From a …

-Saharan Africa and the Pacific, with a focus on the development of foreign trade, fiscal capacity, and education. Although one of the … to colonialism, it came to possess the third-largest colonial empire in sub-Saharan Africa, with economic potential … locally, and plantations, railroads, and trade were expanding—largely due to diamond discoveries in South-West Africa and the …

-Saharan Africa / Ernest Aryeetey and Machiko Nissanke -- Governments and external performance in Africa / Beatrice Weder -- Local … entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa / Deborah Bräutigam -- Resource exports and resource processing for export in … Southeast Asia / Jomo Sundaram and Michael Rock -- Primary exports and primary processing for export in Sub-Saharan Africa …