Despite the recent increase in capital flows to Sub-Saharan Africa, the region remains largely marginalized...

While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome...

This is an independent report produced by a team of international and national consultants supported...

This paper examines the impact of debt forgiveness and debt relief on official development assistance....

The ethnic conflicts in Burundi and Rwanda have severely weakened the economies and worsened the...

A critical task is to construct a development state---a set of democratically-accountable institutions capable of...

This paper examines the question of whether inflation targeting monetary policy is an appropriate framework...

This study investigates the impact of corruption on public and private investment in African countries...

African countries have accumulated substantial foreign currency reserves in recent years, mostly from higher commodity...

In this paper, we explore the argument that one of the causes for the limited...

There is growing consensus on the view that corruption hurts economic performance by reducing private...

This study explores the determinants of investment using both aggregated industry-level data and disaggretated data...

This paper examines the causes of conflict in Burundi and discusses strategies for building peace....

This study examines capital flows and shifts in capital account and exchange rate regimes in...

Does it matter for domestic investment whether a country’s financial system is bank based or...

This study analyzes the causes of civil wars in the Congo since independence and investigates...

We investigate the determinants of capital flight from 30 sub-Saharan African countries, including 24 countries...

This paper presents estimates of capital flight from 25 low-income sub-Saharan African countries in the...