China's African Challenges

Raine, Sarah

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“…It has become Africa's second largest single-country trading partner as well as a leading lender and infrastructure investor on the continent (Raine 2009). Also, its trade with Africa increased from $4 billion in 1995 to $100 billion in 2008, while it has overtaken the World Bank in lending to Africa.…”

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The West’s aid dilemma and the Chinese solution?

Wang

Ozanne

Xin

2014

Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies

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There are currently two contrasting approaches towards aid policy in Africa: that followed by the West is well known for its conditionality and selectivity and focus on direct financial support, while the approach adopted by China eschews conditionality and concentrates on infrastructure building. The Chinese approach has been criticized for its failure to create direct employment and because, it is argued, its unconditionality hampers good governance in Africa. However, this paper argues that the West faces a dilemma in that governance and its improvements are endogenous to the economic development of a country. Making aid conditional upon governance therefore unduly penalizes countries at the bottom. The Chinese approach, in contrast, avoids this dilemma by directly targeting constraints to development; it may therefore be more effective in generating long-run growth, which may in turn foster good governance.

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“…19. For a more detailed analysis and discussion of the opposing views regarding China's involvement in Africa, see Raine (2009). 20.…”

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The West’s aid dilemma and the Chinese solution?

Wang

Ozanne

Xin

2014

Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies

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“…A notable area for this was in enhancing Chinese food security, with growing efforts to secure land to produce food for export to China (Raine, 2009;Xinhua, 2008). Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows to Africa primarily concentrated on the extractive industries, but there was some diversification into other sectors (Broadman, 2007).…”

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“…The phenomenal economic rise of China and its growing presence in Africa has been the centre of much recent debate among international relations researchers (Raine, 2009;Scott, 2008;Friedman, 2010;Hofstedt, 2009). Ian Bremmer (2010 notes that, in their attempts to attain Great Power status, " [a]uthoritarian governments everywhere have learned to compete internationally by embracing market-driven capitalism" (p. 4).…”

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China’s Baby Steps in Africa: A Historical Reckoning of Chinese Relations with Mozambique and Sudan until 2011

Robinson¹,

Hale²

2017

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“…Nowadays, there is an abundance of books, studies and articles on China in Africa (cf. Alden, 2007; Brautigam, 2009; Raine, 2009; Taylor, 2009; Shinn & Eisenman, 2012) and, albeit to a lesser extent especially as far as Europe is concerned, on India in Africa (cf. Biswas, 2013a; Dubey, 2010a; Mawdsley & McCann, 2011; Sheth, 2008).…”

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Same Same but Different? India–Africa Relations and Chinese Involvement in the Continent

Gieg

2016

Insight on Africa

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India's involvement in Africa today is often viewed in economic terms only, mainly focusing on resources. The narrative of an emerging power just looking for oil is nowadays used for India's involvement in Africa as much as for Beijing's foray into the continent. Although both countries' reinforced involvement in the continent is the most important development of Africa's international relations since the end of the Cold War, this approach poses the danger of overlooking or at least playing down important nuances and possible differences between the Indian and the Chinese way of dealing with Africa today. As a matter of fact, officials in New Delhi try to dissociate their policy vis-à-vis Africa from Beijing's 'game plan'. But to what extent do India's and China's involvement in Africa actually differ? This article lays out an analytical framework for comparing Indian and Chinese involvement in Africa and subsequently helps examine historical, political and economic relations between the two emerging powers and Africa. It seeks to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of New Delhi's involvement in Africa beyond conventional, sometimes simplistic, assumptions by contrasting India-Africa with China-Africa relations and carving out differences and similarities.

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China's African Challenges

Cited by 9 publications

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The West’s aid dilemma and the Chinese solution?

The West’s aid dilemma and the Chinese solution?

China’s Baby Steps in Africa: A Historical Reckoning of Chinese Relations with Mozambique and Sudan until 2011

Same Same but Different? India–Africa Relations and Chinese Involvement in the Continent

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