What Drives China's Growing Role in Africa?
By Jian-ye Wang. Social Science Research Network, 2007
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What role does China play in Africa's development? What drives China's increasing economic involvement in the continent? This paper attempts to provide a quantified assessment of China's multifaceted influence as market, donor, financer and investor, and contractor and builder. Though in the past official development aid predominated, the paper argues that government policies, markets for each other's exports, Africa's demand for infrastructure, and differences in China's approach to financing have together moved commercial activities - trade and investment - to the center of China-Africa economic relations. While China's public sector, state financial institutions in particular, has been instrumental in the process, the influence of its private sector is increasing. Implications for the future of China-Africa economic relations are briefly noted.
Subfields: Anthropology, Development, Political Science and International Relations
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- China's Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection (2013, unknown): “This is roughly comparable to previous studies such as Bräutigam (2011b), Wang (2007) and The Economist (2004) that estimated Chinese ODA to Africa to be somewhere between US$ 1 and US$ 2 billion for a particular year in our study's time range.”
- Better the Devil You Know? Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Africa (2011, background): “As of 2006 there were 259 China Exim Bank projects in 36 African countries and 79% of funding was for infrastructure projects (Wang, 2007, p. 10).”
- China's ‘Developmental Outsourcing’: A critical examination of Chinese global ‘land grabs’ discourse (2012, background): “As stated by Wang (2007), Chinese private companies are in fact the engine of Africa’s economic growth (see also Gu 2009, Kaplinsky and Morris 2009).”