Is there a Strategy in China’s Health Official Development Assistance to African Countries?

Guillon, Marlène; Mathonnat, Jacky

doi:10.3917/redp.294.0619

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“…They find that weaker governance matters in the provision of economic and production aid, but not in the social sector. When considering all three broad sectors together their results contradict previous aggregate level research, and indicates that African countries with high endowments of natural resources tend to receive more Chinese ODA [13]. In sum, the sparse literature concludes that there is a need to disaggregate the analysis by ODA sectors as analyzing overall aid to Africa can be misleading.…”

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“…They find that Chinese health aid was responsive to economic needs (measured as Gross Domestic Product per capita) and favored countries with limited ability to finance health projects using national funds. There was no evidence of health aid allocation based on district level needs such as life expectancy, child and maternal mortality, or malaria prevalence [13]. Results do confirm the idea that health aid is part of China's foreign policy as non-adherence to the one-China policy makes the receipt of Chinese health aid unlikely.…”

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“…Guillon and Mathonnat refine the literature by studying the determinants of Chinese aid allocation across three broad sectors (social, economic, and production) over the 2000-2014 period [13]. Their results point to the influence of GDP in the social and production sectors, but not in the economic sectors [13]. They find that weaker governance matters in the provision of economic and production aid, but not in the social sector.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…The literature provides very little comprehensive evidence on the more nuanced determinants of Chinese aid allocation at sector levels. Guillon and Mathonnat refine the literature by studying the determinants of Chinese aid allocation across three broad sectors (social, economic, and production) over the 2000-2014 period [13]. Their results point to the influence of GDP in the social and production sectors, but not in the economic sectors [13].…”

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Pulling the purse strings: Are there sectoral differences in political preferencing of Chinese aid to Africa?

Dolan¹,

McDade²

2020

PLoS ONE

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Objective China is emerging as an increasingly important player in the global development space, but may be less bound to compacts that aim to curb political preferencing and therefore may produce less yield in terms of impact toward Sustainable Development Goals. This research tests the hypothesis that the disproportionate aid allocation to the birth regions of the current African political leaders that applies to some sectors more than others. Design We applied a two-part model to first estimate the probability that a region receives an aid project. Then when at least one aid project is present in a leader's birth region, we estimated the mean amount of aid the region received. Setting This analysis covers 699 subnational units (first administrative level) across 44 African countries over 2000-2014. These administrative units were compiled into a region year panel resulting in 10,485 observations. Results Birth regions of the current political leader are significantly more likely than the average of all of the regions to receive education (1.3 percentage points), social infrastructure and services (1.2 percentage points), and energy aid (1.7 percentage points). No significant association was found between aid flows to the birth region of the current political leader in the agriculture, communication, education, government, health or transportation sectors. Within the education sector, the coefficients for birth region are positive in both parts and statistically significant. Both the probability of aid allocation and the amount of aid conditional on any projects increase in the birth region of the current political leader.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

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Pulling the purse strings: Are there sectoral differences in political preferencing of Chinese aid to Africa?

Dolan¹,

McDade²

2020

PLoS ONE

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“…However, it is allocated in several sectors, emergency, and economic developments. It mainly distributed to different sectors such as communication, infrastructure, health, education, energy, agriculture, trade and tourism, banking, and financial services (Guillon & Mathonnat, 2019).…”

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The driving factors of Chinese aid allocation to African countries

Jiang

Borojo

Miao

et al. 2020

Cogent Business & Management

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We investigate the driving factors of Chinese aid allocation to 44 African countries for the periods 2003-2017. The Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML) procedure is applied to estimate the gravity model of aid and loan allocation as it can solve zero-valued observations and heterogeneity problems prevalent in the panel data set. An aggregate indicator is derived for the quality of governance using principal component analysis. We controlled for aggregate Chinese aid and loans separately because a significant share of aid allocation China commits to African countries is repayable long-term loans. Controlling for source and destination countries' motives of aid and loan allocation, our findings provide evidence that Chinese aid and loan flow to African countries is significantly determined by African countries' and China's strategic, economic and commercial factors. The results further examine the importance of China-Africa trade and Chinese FDI, China's international support and foreign policy considerations in China's aid and loan allocation policy to African countries. Additionally, it gives a detailed analysis of the aid-institution paradox.

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What can we learn on Chinese aid allocation motivations from available data? A sectorial analysis of Chinese aid to African countries

Guillon

Mathonnat

2020

China Economic Review

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Is there a Strategy in China’s Health Official Development Assistance to African Countries?

Cited by 11 publications

References 34 publications

Pulling the purse strings: Are there sectoral differences in political preferencing of Chinese aid to Africa?

Pulling the purse strings: Are there sectoral differences in political preferencing of Chinese aid to Africa?

The driving factors of Chinese aid allocation to African countries

What can we learn on Chinese aid allocation motivations from available data? A sectorial analysis of Chinese aid to African countries

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