survey of private bank lending towards developing countries is undertaken in order to identify the private banks most active … an international division of labour in bank lending: within the developing world, banks from OECD countries tend to focus … their credit on specific regions and countries. This mapping of private bank lending also allows us to pinpoint concrete …

countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Corden focuses on how economies react to negative and positive shocks under …

This paper re-examines the relationship between FDI inflows and welfare (or poverty reduction) in Africa. Using FDI net … relationship between FDI net inflows and poverty reduction in Africa but find significant differences among African regions. We … East Africa, it is non-significant in Northern and Southern Africa. Furthermore, the relationship was found to be ambiguous …

significant relationship between net FDI inflows and welfare improvement in North Africa, although we do find significant …, education and financial market development. Hence, at the aggregate level, FDI contributes to economic growth in North Africa …

the first time to North Africa, the stock-flow approach to the real equilibrium exchange rate, this paper evaluates the … misalignments. Intra-regional trade – both with North Africa and the rest of the continent – together with greater orientation to …