Once upon a time in the world of development finance, it was assumed that simply investing in developing economies was enough—that the flow…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
The power of Pan-Africanism as a guiding vision for the continent’s development is widely studied, mostly as an aspirational phenomenon. At…
Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth.
We argue that often firms in…
This paper studies kinship band networks as capital market institutions. Membership in a community where individuals are dynastically…