Better the Devil You Know? Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Africa

By Ivar Kolstad, Arne Wiig. 2011

188 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

• Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment (2017, background): “Although this raises the possibility that China is exploiting Africa and its natural environment, Kolstad & Wiig (93) do point out that in this regard China is no different from any other foreign investor in Africa.”
• Institutions-FDI Nexus in ECOWAS Countries (2016, background): “In the same vein, Kolstad and Wiig (2011) also conducted a study on Chinese FDI to Africa using a sample of 29 African countries between 2003 and 2006.”
• Information Asymmetry and Financial Development Dynamics in Africa (2016, unknown): “It is relevant to recall that the underlying issues of excess cash within formal banking establishments (Saxegaard, 2006; Fouda, 2009) represent one of the most important challenges in African business literature (Bartels et al., 2009; Tuomi, 2011; Kolstad & Wiig, 2011; Darley, 2012).”
• Chinese Participation in Ghana's Informal Gold Mining Economy: Drivers, Implications and Clarifications (2014, background): “Kolstad and Wiig (2011) highlight the elements of this debate, which is represented, on the one hand, by a small group of scholars (e.g. Kragelund 2009; Alves 2013) who see China’s growing involvement in Africa as a positive development, potentially providing the continent’s countries with a rare…”
• Government Quality Determinants of Stock Market Performance in African Countries (2011, unknown): “Kolstad & Wiig (2011) investigating Chinese FDI in Africa have established that these(FDIs) are resources-driven and conclude: exploiting resources and weak institutions appears to be the name of the investment game in Africa.”
• Reinventing Foreign Aid for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Kuznets, Piketty and the Great Policy Reversal (2016, unknown): “…Farrell, 2013, p. 85; Mohan & Tan-Mullins, 2009, p. 588; Kragelund, 2009, p. 644; Zhang et al., 2013, p. 96; Kamwanga & Koyi, 2009, p. 6; Osei & Mubiru, 2010, p. 1; Kolstad & Wiig, 2011, p. 31; Alden & Alves, 2008, p. 43; Schiere, 2010, p. 615; Mohan & Power, 2008, p. 23; Sanfilippo, 2010, p. 599).”
• China's Impact on Africa – The Role of Trade, FDI and Aid (2016, background): “As pointed out by Kolstad and Wiig (2011), Chinese FDI to Africa is not attracted by GDP as soon as South Africa is excluded from the sample.”