ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY WITH AFRICA

Japanese Aid Diplomacy in Africa: An Historical Analysis

At the Gleneagles Summit in 2005 the leaders of G8 agreed to debt cancellation for 18 highly indebted poor, including 14 African, countries. Japan reluctantly had to accept the cancellation, which clearly demonstrates the shift of the Japanese aid policy which for so long was based on loan-centred assistance. The history of the Japanese aid diplomacy in Africa could be divided into 5 stages: th...

Economic Commission for Africa Economic Report on Africa 2006

science and technology diplomacy model based on the economic complexity

Background and Aim: The history of the evolution of human societies indicates the important and civilizing role of science and technology in the formation of economic, social, cultural, and political relations. Along with the increasing speed and development of science and technology, economic, social, cultural, and political concepts and approaches have also changed and played a more colorful ...

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Regional Integration as Diplomacy

Regional integration agreements (RIAs) are examples of second best and have an ambiguous impact on welfare. This paper builds a model where RIAs unambiguously raise welfare by correcting for externalities. It assumes that trade between neighboring countries raises trust between them and reduce the likelihood of conflict. The optimum intervention in that case is a subsidy on imports from the nei...