Tiruneh, Esubalew Alehegn
Foreign Capital Flows and Economic Development in Africa
Part I. Introduction
1. Exploring the Nature, Motives, and Implications of Foreign Capital in Africa
Evelyn Wamboye, Esubalew Alehegn Tiruneh
Part II. Chinese Growing Engagement in Africa: Motives and Implications
2. The Impact of China and South Africa in Urban Africa
Pádraig Carmody, James T. Murphy
3. China’s Financial and Aid Flows into Africa and their Effects
Meine Pieter Dijk
4. Enhancing the Impact of Chinese Development Finance for Sustained Poverty Alleviation in Africa
Patrick N. Osakwe
Part III. Understanding BRICS’ versus OECD Countries’ Investment in Africa
5. Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Change in Africa: Does Origin of Investors Matter?
Vito Amendolagine, Nicola D. Coniglio, Adnan Seric
6. BRICS versus G7 Countries’ Direct Investment Impact in Africa
Kenechukwu Ezemenari, Esubalew Alehegn Tiruneh, Evelyn Wamboye
7. BRIC versus OECD Foreign Direct Investment Impact on Development in Africa
Samuel Adams, Eric Evans Osei Opoku
8. Cross-Border Capital Flows and Economic Performance in Africa: A Sectoral Analysis
Odongo Kodongo, Kalu Ojah
Part IV. The Politics of Land, Land Grab, and the Development Puzzle
9. The Concept of Land in Ethiopian Tradition: Land, Power, and Famine
Mesfin Wolde-Mariam
10. Your Next “Landlord” Will Not Be Ethiopian: How Globalization Undermines the Poor
Aklog Birara
11. The Truth About Land Grabs: A Review of the Oakland Institute’s Reports on Large-Scale Land Investments in the Twenty-First Century
Elizabeth Fraser, Anuradha Mittal
Part V. International R&D Spillovers, Trade Linkages, and Economic Development in Africa
12. International R&D Spillovers and Labor Productivity in Africa
Esubalew Alehegn Tiruneh, Evelyn Wamboye, David O’Brien
13. Development Aid and International Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa: EU versus China
Eduard Marinov, Nedyalko Nestorov
14. Changing International Trade Linkages in Sub-Saharan Africa: BRIC versus OECD Countries
Nihal Bayraktar
Part VI. Revisiting Aid Effect on Social Sector, Growth, and Structural Change in Africa
15. Growth Impact of Aid Quantity and Quality in Africa
Evelyn Wamboye, Kiril Tochkov
16. The Role of Foreign Aid in the Fast-Growing Rwandan Economy: Assessing Growth Alternatives
Xinshen Diao
17. Anatomy of Foreign Aid in Ethiopia
Adugna Lemi
Part VII. Remittances, Debt, Resource Management, and Economic Development in Africa
18. Remittances and Economic Development in Africa: A Review of Empirical Evidence
Kasahun Woldemariam, Zelealem Yiheyis
19. Have Debt Relief Initiatives Yielded Varying Effects in Resource and Non-resource Endowed Countries in Africa?
Esubalew Alehegn Tiruneh, Evelyn Wamboye
20. Debt Sustainability and Direction of Trade: What Does Africa’s Shifting Engagement with BRIC and OECD Tells Us?
Kelbesa Megersa, Danny Cassimon
21. Managing Resource Price Volatility: Exploring Policy Options for the Democratic Republic of Congo
Emmanuel Pinto Moreira
Keywords: Finance, Capital Markets, African Economics, Development Economics, International Finance, Development Finance, International Economics
- Editor
- Tiruneh, Esubalew Alehegn
- Wamboye, Evelyn
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 26 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137534965
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-53495-8