Patrick N. Osakwe

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the performance, promotion, and prospects for foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa and identified factors such as political and macroeconomic instability, low growth, weak infrastructure, poor governance, inhospitable regulatory environments, and ill-conceived investment promotion strategies, are identified as responsible for poor FDI record of the region.

TL;DR: The authors examined the determinants of currency crises in Latin America, Asia and Africa and found no evidence of contagion effect after controlling for the potential effects of economic fundamentals using pooled annual data for 19 developing countries spanning […]

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between trade, trade liberalization, and exports diversification in developing and Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries was explored, and it was shown that countries that are more open to trade have less diversified exports structures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the validity of these popular views using a System-GMM methodology and panel data for African countries and suggested that aid, the quality of infrastructure, and resource endowments are robust determinants of diversification in Africa.

TL;DR: The authors discusses the merits and shortcomings of alternative price indices used in constructing real effective exchange rate indices and examines the effects of different weighting schemes and compares selected measures of the real effective rate in terms of their ability to explain movements in Canadian net exports and real output.