China and Africa: economic growth and a non-transformative political elite

Hodzi, Obert

doi:10.1080/02589001.2017.1406191

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“…Instead, its aim was institutional stability, and it (seemingly) approached African states as equals, not as past colonies. This made it appealing for both autocratic and democratic African states to turn to China (Hodzi 2018; Kinyondo, Pelizzo, and Nwokora 2018).…”

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“…Three of these interactions concern exports, the particular importance of which is suggested empirically by Bader (2014). First, Hodzi (2018) argues that exports relate to primary resources, the revenues from which are important for state leaders to strengthen their already authoritarian position. In this case, the relationship between exports to China and democracy may depend on a state's degree of (lack of) democracy.…”

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Modeling the Impact of a Model: The (Non)Relationship between China's Economic Rise and African Democracy

Davidsson

2020

Politics & Policy

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Many scholars have regarded China's emergence as an economic force as a threat to democracy in Africa, presenting China as the exporter of an authoritarian model through its rising economic influence. This article investigates how well founded the contended Chinese economic threat to Africa is by both analyzing the data at a very fundamental level and applying time-series, cross-sectional analysis to economic and political data. In particular, the relationship between Chinese economic interactions with African states and democracy is explored. The analysis considers different aspects of an economic interaction with China measured both as share of GDP and of country totals. I do not find a relationship between Chinese economic interaction with African states and democracy in these states. The article thus contributes much important groundwork concerning the existence of patterns in Chinese economic relations and democracy, as well as some specific links between these economic relations and political change.

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Modeling the Impact of a Model: The (Non)Relationship between China's Economic Rise and African Democracy

Davidsson

2020

Politics & Policy

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“…This strategy contains a set of specific medical, agricultural and infrastructure projects, the implementation of which -with the participation of Chinese capital -will be starting soon. The plan is ambitious enough that the share of African countries in total aid distributed by the Chinese has increased compared to the past years -with the new strategy, support for Africa accounts for 50 percent of it (Hodzi, 2018).…”

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Advantages and Disadvantages of the Contemporary Relationship between China and Africa

Binnatli

2019

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“…By a similar coincidence, of the three primary schools constructed with Chinese funds in rural Tanzania, one was built in the then President Jakaya Kikwete's hometown of Msoga (Hodzi, 2017). Around the same time, in Namibia, Chinese scholarships went to children of top ministers and public officials, reigniting a debate that China uses its development finance "to create elite alliances and ease the approval of no-bid contracts" (The New York Times, 2009).…”

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Chinese Aid and Local Ethnic Identification

Isaksson

2020

SSRN Journal

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Recent empirical evidence suggests that Chinese development finance may be particularly prone to elite capture and patronage spending. If aid ends up in the pockets of political elites and their ethno-regional networks, this may exacerbate grievances based in horizontal inequalities. Against this background, the present study investigates whether the implementation of Chinese development projects fuels local ethnic identities. A new geo-referenced dataset on the subnational allocation of Chinese development finance projects to Africa over the 2000-2014 period is geographically matched with survey data for 94,954 respondents from 18 African countries. The identification strategy consists in comparing sites where a Chinese project was under implementation at the time of the interview, to sites where a Chinese project will appear subsequently but where implementation had not yet started at the time of the survey. While suggesting substantial country variation, the empirical results indeed suggest that, on average, living near an ongoing Chinese project fuels ethnic identification. I consider two mechanisms possibly underlying this result. First, competition for the inflow of resources that aid constitutes could mobilize ethnic identities across the board. Second, perceptions of ethnically biased aid may fuel ethnic identities in groups perceiving themselves as disadvantaged. Two observations speak in favour of the latter mechanism. First, the estimated effect is not uniform across groups, but driven by people belonging to the out-group. Second, there is no indication of an equivalent pattern when considering development projects of other donors. Replicating the key analysis for World Bank projects as well as for other bilateral donors, the results in fact indicate the reverse, i.e. that living near an ongoing as opposed to a future project comes with weaker ethnic identification.

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China and Africa: economic growth and a non-transformative political elite

Cited by 42 publications

References 25 publications

Modeling the Impact of a Model: The (Non)Relationship between China's Economic Rise and African Democracy

Modeling the Impact of a Model: The (Non)Relationship between China's Economic Rise and African Democracy

Advantages and Disadvantages of the Contemporary Relationship between China and Africa

Chinese Aid and Local Ethnic Identification

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