Alexis Habiyaremye

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how transnational corruption affects host country firms' innovation behavior and performance in transition economies of Eastern Europe and Central and Western Asia, and show that the involvement of foreign firms in corruption practices reduces the propensity of firms in host countries to invest in research and development and harms their ability to improve their existing products and services.

TL;DR: Innovation is increasingly recognized as a potent policy tool for addressing the structural problems that characterize poverty in marginalized rural communities as discussed by the authors, and in what ways should governments in rural areas adopt it for addressing these structural problems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role played by Sino-African resource-for-infrastructure swap projects in Africa's new development dynamics using panel data of African countries over the period 2001-10, and found that by contributing to easing the infrastructural bottlenecks, Sino African trade has played a key role in the fast growth of oil-rich African countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how foreign firms' involvement in corruption practices affects the innovation behavior and performance of their direct competitors in transition economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and found that grand corruption stifles the propensity of firms in the same line of business to conduct R&D activities and to bring new or upgraded products and services to the market.

TL;DR: This article used a dynamic panel data model to examine whether the Angola-mode deals have reinforced resource dependence and impeded export diversification in African countries, finding that by helping African countries reduce existing infrastructure bottlenecks, resources-forinfrastructure swap deals enabled them to increase their diversification capacity.