Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, language: English, abstract: This article examines the multiple economic and social problems Africa is facing, and concludes that the continent transformation rests not on 'aid' but momentum for 'wealth creation' which can be look at from these key pillars: entrepreneurship, knowledge, governance and technology. Africa needs to think outside the box when establishing and utilizing these pillars. However, to make these pillars work, mindset transformation is a precondition....

Research paper from the year 2013 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, Xiamen University, language: English, abstract: The paper employs revealed comparative advantage (RCA) to assess the competitiveness of the case study countries in the Chinese market. The empirical analysis revealed that even though there was a fierce competition in the labour-intensive manufacturing industry with most of the case study countries exports. However, further disaggregation revealed otherwise. It also indicated that the establishment of the Special Preferential Tariffs Treatment (SPTT) by China since...