Large-scale agricultural investments (LSAIs) typically depend on strong formal institutions and market-oriented intensive farming,...

Compared with China’s well known dominance in world trade, its expanding role in global finance is poorly documented and understood....

This paper uses firm-level survey responses across more than 100 emerging and developing countries to examine whether female managers...

Geocoding firm-level data and matching them to georeferenced household survey data, we are the first to analyze whether the presence...

The relationship between nutrient intake and wealth of poor households continues to be an issue of huge policy relevance. In this...

The paper provides firm-level insights into the drivers of foreign technology licensing from the perspective of the licensee, using...

This paper looks at the importance of CSR considerations in the decision taken by a foreign affiliate of a multinational company about...

Acknowledging that aid proliferation and a lack of coordination impair aid effectiveness, donors have repeatedly promised to...

In light of the surge in large-scale farms in developing countries, concerns have been raised that smallholders may be negatively...

This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and developing...

The paper investigates the determinants of Internet adoption in poor countries, focusing on the role of macro-geographic location...

Aid proliferation and a lack of coordination are widely recognized as serious problems for aid effectiveness, and donors have...

We compare the performance of Northern and Southern multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa, and contrast it with local firms in the host...

This paper deals with the question of how responsive farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are to changes in incentives. Employing...

This paper evaluates the effect of AIDS-related mortality on per-capita incomes of surviving household members, using a large...

Employing a unique dataset that covers households from six West African capitals, this paper provides new evidence on the demand for...

Employing a unique dataset that covers almost 6000 informal enterprises from six West African urban centers, this paper examines the...

This paper uses firm level data for 19 African countries to look at the link between domestic firms’ business relationship with...

“Desert Power 2050” is probably the world’s most ambitious strategy report towards the decarbonization of the power sector in Europe,...

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The...