Private Chinese Investment in Africa: Myths and Realities
By Xiaofang Shen. 2013
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Private Chinese outbound investment, not as well-known as government-led investment, offers special opportunities and challenges for Africa today. The significance of Chinese private-sector investment is already visible in the burgeoning manufacturing sector in some parts of Africa, and the trend will continue to grow in the near future. The underlying force behind this trend is the increased pressure of industrial restructuring in coastal China, a force that drives some labor-intensive firms to relocate to other parts of the developing world, including Africa. African host country governments can respond to this phenomenon with proactive development policies and strategies to maximize private Chinese investment for the benefit of their own economies.
Subfields: Development
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- South–South Cooperation, Agribusiness, and African Agricultural Development: Brazil and China in Ghana and Mozambique (2016, background): “Many of these are not registered with Chinese embassies or Chambers of Commerce and operate outside formal state policy, and must negotiate business relationships in African country states (Shen, 2013).”
- Inclusive innovation: an architecture for policy development (2014, background): “…not only targeting their own low-income populations, but are also increasingly seeking to move out of their local markets, often as a result of intense competition in their domestic markets (a primary driver of Chinese private sector involvement in Africa – Kaplinsky and Morris 2009; Shen 2013).”
- China and Africa: Expanding Economic Ties in an Evolving Global Context (2015, background): “Anecdotal evidence also suggests that many companies, although required by law to register with government agencies, choose not to go through the time-consuming registration process (Shen 2013).”
- Belt and road initiative and Chinese firms' outward foreign direct investment (2019, unknown): “2 Others argue that amid the normalization phase of China's economy, the initiative is mainly proposed to help rebalance China's economic structure and sustain growth by reconfiguring the external sectors and reducing supply-side redundancy (Shen, 2013; Chen et al., 2015, 2016).”