Foreign Capital Flows and Economic Development in Africa The Impact of BRICS versus OECD /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wamboye, Evelyn (Editor), Tiruneh, Esubalew Alehegn (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Finance.; Capital market.; International economics.; Development economics.; Capital Markets.; African Economics.; Development Economics.; International Finance.; Development Finance.; International Economics.

This collection examines the extent to which foreign capital from conventional (OECD countries) and non-conventional (BRICS) sources has impacted economic development in Africa over the last two decades. It provides in-depth analyses of the nature, motives, and implications of this capital, and iden...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Exploring the Nature, Motives, and Implications of Foreign Capital in Africa
• 2. The Impact of China and South Africa in Urban Africa
• 3. China's Financial and Aid Flows into Africa and their Effects
• 4. Enhancing the Impact of Chinese Development Finance for Sustained Poverty Alleviation
• 5. Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Change: Does the Origin of Investors Matter?
• 6. BRICS' versus G7 Countries' Direct Investment Impact
• 7. BRICS' versus OECD's Foreign Direct Investment Impact on Development
• 8. Cross-Border Capital Flows and Economic Performance: A Sectoral Analysis
• 9. The Concept of Land in Ethiopian Tradition: Land, Power, and Famine
• 10. Your Next "Landlord" Will Not Be Ethiopian: How Globalization Undermines the Poor
• 11. The Truth about Land Grabs: A Review of the Oakland Institute’s Reports on Large-Scale Land Investments in the Twenty-First Century
• 12. International R&D Spillovers and Labor Productivity
• 13. Development Aid and International Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa: The EU versus China
• 14. Changing International Trade Linkages in Sub-Saharan Africa: BRIC versus OECD Countries
• 15. The Growth Impact of Aid Quantity and Quality
• 16. The Role of Foreign Aid in the Fast-Growing Rwandan Economy: Assessing Growth Alternatives
• 17. Anatomy of Foreign Aid in Ethiopia
• 18. Remittances and Economic Development: A Review of the Empirical Evidence
• 19. Have Debt Relief Initiatives Yielded Varying Impact in Resource and Non-Resource Endowed Countries?
• 20. Debt Sustainability and Direction of Trade: What does Africa’s Shifting Engagement with BRIC and OECD Countries Tell Us?
• 21. Managing Resource Price Volatility: Exploring Policy Options for the Democratic Republic of Congo.