China's Ventures in Africa: Patterns, Prospects, and Implications for Africa's Development

Anyu, J. Ndumbe; Ifedi, J.-P. Afam

doi:10.1215/10474552-2008-027

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“…The latter is one of the major challenges faced by global food security, and is the source of more caution from civil society groups (Samy, 2010). As a result, overseas investment from China is both an opportunity and a challenge for host countries, and specific performance is affected by host countries' management (Anyu & Ifedi, 2008). Similarly like in Africa, while the impacts of Chinese presence on local development are modest overall, these impacts do appear to be positive in the sense that they are creating economic opportunities, both for themselves and for local people (Cook et al, 2016).…”

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Socio-economic Impact of Chinese Agribusiness Entrepreneurs in Russian Far East on Local Farmers

Yi¹,

Gudaj²,

Arefieva³

et al. 2020

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Since the liberalization of the Sino-Soviet border in 1990's, Chinese farmers have been actively engaged in the economy of Russian Far East. Literature suggests that Chinese workers fill a labour shortage, contribute positively to local food security, with negative impacts being more socially normative and political, than economic. So far no economic empirical research exists about Chinese farmers' presence in Russian Far East. On the basis of a panel data, an econometric model was used to analyse socio-economic impact of Chinese agribusiness entrepreneurs in Russian Far East on local households. Regression models show that presence of Chinese farmers in Russian Far East increases the probability of higher well-being, farm income, food costs and share of Chinese food purchased among Russian Far East households. These results suggest that benefits of cooperation with Chinese farmers and retailers should not be ignored when designing policies towards sustainable development of rural areas in Russian Far East. Possible environmental, social and economic externalities of further soybean production in Russian Far East are also discussed.Our analysis is focused on two broad questions. First, what is the impact of Chinese farms cultivating soybean in RFE on local rural household income, well-being and costs of living (spending)? Second, what farming, legal, entrepreneurship and contextual factors influence the magnitude and relative importance impact? We investigated effects of number of Chinese farm in 20 km range (no.), selling to Chinese (0-1), share of production sold to Chinese (%) and distance to Chinese farm (km) on well-being, farm income, food cost and share of Chinese food purchased among Russian Far East households.Our hypothesis was that more farms in 20 km range and/or selling to Chinese and/or selling more to Chinese and/or closer distance to the Chinese farm will increase probability of lower well-being, lower farm income, lower food costs and greater share of Chinese food purchased among Russian Far East households. Our findings

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Socio-economic Impact of Chinese Agribusiness Entrepreneurs in Russian Far East on Local Farmers

Yi¹,

Gudaj²,

Arefieva³

et al. 2020

JAS

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“…Africa represents opportunities as indicated by the surge of multinational companies, vibrant economies (e.g., Rwanda, Ghana, Mauritius, and Botswana), including 8 oil‐exporting, 9 diversified, 10 transition, and 5 pretransition economies, and increased consumption potential (The Economist, ; Roxburgh et al, ). These opportunities manifest despite deprivation due to locational, infrastructural, and demographic factors (Anyu & Ifedi, ; Chamon & Kremer, ; Collier, ; Collier & Gunning, ; Gu, ).…”

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Are Firms in Developing Countries in Spider Webs or Iron Cages? Geographic Traps and Firm Performance

Zoogah

Mburu

2015

Thunderbird International Business Review

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We explore the question of whether a geographic context represents opportunity or threat using two competing theories — geography of opportunity and curse of geography — and multilevel techniques to analyze data from 366 firms in six African countries (and validated with 128 firms from 24 countries). We find that location (landlockedness and bad neighbors) relate negatively to both sales and net profit. Infrastructure, however, does not relate directly to firm performance at a significant level but interacts with one firm characteristic — multinationality — in relating to sales and net profit. Locational traps — landlockedness and bad neighbors — also interact with multinationality and CEO origin in relating to sales and net profit. We discuss the implications of these findings for research and practice. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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“…Africa is therefore depicted as just a source of cheap China Report 55, 3 (2019): 219-240 labour and raw materials, as well as a suitable market for Chinese finished products. This is seen to undermine Africa's industrial growth and competitiveness as Africa too could benefit from her own market rather than having to compete with China (Alden, Large and Oliveira 2008;Anyu and Ifedi 2008;Eisenman 2012). However, it is important to note that China's growing demand for minerals and other extractives has also increased the prices of such commodities in the international market.…”

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Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: The Impact of Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya

Githaiga

Wang

2019

China Report

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China’s Belt and Road has been billed as the single most significant undertaking by the country on the international stage. In Africa, Kenya is a core part of both the Maritime Silk Road and the Belt. The authors have examined the flagship project of this initiative in Kenya, the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from the port of Mombasa to Nairobi, with a view to analyse the impact so far. Issues of employment, debt sustainability, neocolonialism and specific aspects of the project were looked at. Although our findings indicate that the SGR so far has both positive aspects as well as challenges, for the project to be successful both China and Kenya need to create a synergy towards solving concerns that have arisen from the completion of phase 1 of the project.

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China's Ventures in Africa: Patterns, Prospects, and Implications for Africa's Development

Cited by 14 publications

References 4 publications

Socio-economic Impact of Chinese Agribusiness Entrepreneurs in Russian Far East on Local Farmers

Socio-economic Impact of Chinese Agribusiness Entrepreneurs in Russian Far East on Local Farmers

Are Firms in Developing Countries in Spider Webs or Iron Cages? Geographic Traps and Firm Performance

Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: The Impact of Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya

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