Chinese construction companies in Angola: A local linkages perspective

Corkin, Lucy

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“…The period has also witnessed a parallel surge of interest in the condition of infrastructure for economic activity as growing FDI, as well as policy pressure to reduce trade barriers, has identified infrastructure shortcomings as a constraint to further growth and development. For sub-Saharan African countries such as Angola, direct interest by China in accessing crude oil reserves has seen oil-for-infrastructure-type deals that have enabled the exploiting of resource endowments to modernize some aspects of physical infrastructure (Zafar, 2007;Corkin, 2011). For other countries without any apparent economically accessible oil reserves, the commodity boom associated with mining projects has seen less clear associations between FDI or resource revenue flows and infrastructure development.…”

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Mining Fdi and Infrastructure Development on Africa's East Coast: Examining the Recent Experience of Tanzania and Mozambique

Robbins

Perkins

2012

J of Intl Development

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Since the turn of the century, Tanzania and Mozambique have emerged in Africa's foreign direct investment stakes as leading performers. In both countries, the demands placed on infrastructure to enable these investments have presented some significant challenges. Caught amid high debt, low state revenue and weak capacity, the performance of infrastructure has been widely reported as a constraint to growth. Lessons learned from how these countries have responded to these challenges provide some insight as to the degree to which potential synergies can be crafted around inflows of mining-related foreign direct investment and enhancements to the infrastructure networks.

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Mining Fdi and Infrastructure Development on Africa's East Coast: Examining the Recent Experience of Tanzania and Mozambique

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2012

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“…Where a number of major Nigerian employers had gone bust the Chinese firms were still operating. By contrast the post-war labour market of Angola was poor so that labour importation is higher despite local content clauses (Corkin 2011b).…”

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“…That is not to say that these business relationships are random, but that ethnicity and nationality are overdetermined in the literature on Chinese migrant businesses, which in turn diverts attention from the potential benefits to African economies. For example, recent research in Zambia (Fessehaie 2011) and Angola (Corkin 2011b) suggests that the Chinese are not as enclaved as earlier reports suggested and local firms have secured a growing number of contracts.…”

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“…Although the Chinese seemed to have got a foothold in Africa through these Chinese-governmentsupported projects they are now competing more openly for tenders and as one European aid official told us 'winning in straight fights' (see also Corkin 2011b). Furthermore, in terms of energy, oil reserves were discovered in 2007 in Ghana (McCaskie 2008).…”

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“…Most come in under tied arrangements linked to state-backed concessional loans, which reduces the risk to these firms, even if the absolute levels of profit are thin. However, there is emerging evidence (Corkin 2011b) that once established in an African market these firms operate like any other TNC and tender for open contracts which they are increasingly winning.…”

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The Politics of Inclusive Development

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Bukenya³

2014

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The Infrastructure and Commodities Interface in Africa: Time for Cautious Optimism?

Farooki

2012

J of Intl Development

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The recent surge in African economic growth rates associated with the rise in commodity prices have led to renewed interest in the role of resources in economic growth. Africa has multiple economic and social needs, infrastructure being one of them. The resource sector is contributing towards growth of investments in infrastructure, but how effective this contribution is to wider development goals needs to be chronicled. This paper examines two vectors of interaction between infrastructure and commodities: first, the direct provision of infrastructure for commodity extraction; second, the use of resource rents for infrastructure spending. This paper emphasises the policy need to align infrastructure spending with development needs, rather than building transport networks per se. We find there are positive indications that such recognition exists on a policy level, and there are partial successes. However, more needs to be carried out to ensure sub-Saharan Africa can benefit from its infrastructure spending in relation to the commodity sector.

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Chinese construction companies in Angola: A local linkages perspective

Cited by 93 publications

References 6 publications

Mining Fdi and Infrastructure Development on Africa's East Coast: Examining the Recent Experience of Tanzania and Mozambique

Mining Fdi and Infrastructure Development on Africa's East Coast: Examining the Recent Experience of Tanzania and Mozambique

The Politics of Inclusive Development

The Infrastructure and Commodities Interface in Africa: Time for Cautious Optimism?

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