Journal Articles

China has significantly changed its engagement mode with Africa, shifting from trade of natural resources to investment in industrial sectors.

Efforts to bring informal firms into the formal sector are often based on a view that this will bring benefits to the firms themselves, or at least benefit governments through increasing the tax base.

Despite efforts to increase integration within Africa, product markets remain segmented between countries.

This study by Nchake, Edwards and Rankin (2017), published in the International Review of Economics and Finance, utilizes detailed micro price data to estimate the impact of closer monetary union on the integration of product markets across countries, considering two policy shocks from Botswana.