The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa by Deborah Brautigam

By D. Brautigam. 2010

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• South–South Cooperation, Agribusiness, and African Agricultural Development: Brazil and China in Ghana and Mozambique (2016, background): “and seeds from China, and so often not sustainable (Brautigam, 2009).”
• Chinese construction companies in Angola : a local linkages perspective (2012, background): “For example, Dongfang Nissan established a car assembly plant in Luanda in the Viana Industrial Zone (Brautigam, 2009:209).”
• The Institutional Influence on the Location Strategies of Multinational Enterprises from Emerging Economies: Evidence from China's Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (2016, background): “The Economist (2010) claims that, due to its opaque nature, China’s important role as a foreign investor has been interpreted as a threat to countries in the west and sub-Saharan Africa (Bond, 2006; Brautigam, 2009).”
• Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa (2018, background): “7 A large share of China’s development finance indeed cannot be classified as aid in the traditional ODA-sense (Bräutigam, 2009).”
• Rising powers and state transformation: The case of China (2016, background): “This is a ‘recipe for chaos’ in Chinese aid policymaking and implementation (Brautigam, 2009: 116).”
• Are “New” Donors Challenging World Bank Conditionality? (2017, background): “They often demand borrowers to award investment contracts to companies from their own countries or accept natural resources as collateral for their loans rather than insisting on fiscal rectitude (Bräutigam 2009, The Economist 2015).”
• Aid ‘With Chinese Characteristics’: Chinese Foreign Aid and Development Finance Meet the OECD‐DAC Aid Regime (2011, unknown): “Although there is much speculation that the practice is widespread, the existing evidence suggests that China does not use its official foreign assistance budget to support bids for oil investments or natural resource concessions (Bräutigam, 2009: 277–281).”
• The political economy of energy transitions in Mozambique and South Africa: The role of the Rising Powers (2016, background): “…also a growing body of scholarship concerned with the ‘rising powers’ as emerging development donors and global actors in the new ‘scramble for Africa’ (Brautigam, 2010; Power et al 2012; Mawdsley 2012; Carmody 2011) which usefully raises questions about the changing nature of international…”
• Chinese Outward Direct Investment Research: Theoretical Integration and Recommendations (2013, unknown): “Most researchers argue that investment by Chinese firms with support and subsidies from their ‘developmental state’ provides a promising new approach to sustainable industrialization, particularly in Africa (see, e.g., Biggeri & Sanfilippo, 2009; Brautigam, 2009).”