African Shenzhen: China's special economic zones in Africa

By D. Brautigam, Xiaoyang Tang. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 2011

307 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Anthropology, Development, Economics and Econometrics

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In Anthropology

1. Liz Alden Wily
2. Xiaoyang Tang
3. D. Brautigam

In Development

1. Liz Alden Wily
2. Xiaoyang Tang
3. J. Page
4. D. Brautigam
5. A. Shimeles

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Liz Alden Wily
2. Xiaoyang Tang
3. J. Page
4. D. Brautigam
5. A. Shimeles

Citations in the corpus

• Looking back to see forward: the legal niceties of land theft in land rushes (2012, background): “This is illustrated in the largely foreign capital buy-in and buy-up of Special Economic Zones (SEZ), most advanced in India but multiplying in Africa, including eight proposed very large ‘Shenzhen’ for development by Chinese interests (Brautigam 2011).”
• Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa (2014, background): “China, on the other hand—building on its own success with spatial industrial policies—has launched a recent initiative to build export-oriented special economic zones in Africa (Brautigam and Xioyang 2011).”
• “Going Global in Groups”: Structural Transformation and China’s Special Economic Zones Overseas (2014, background): “This aspect of Chinese engagement would in theory be helpful for recipient countries, while also benefiting China (Bräutigam and Tang, 2011a, 2011b, 2012).”