Sino‐African Relations: A Review and Reconciliation of Dominant Schools of Thought

Asongu, Simplice A.

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“…Whereas the Washington Consensus prioritizes political governance, the Beijing Model places more emphasis on economic governance (Asongu 2016a). Within this framework, there is an evolving stream of literature sympathetic to the perspective that short-term governance priorities are needed to resolve Africa's poverty tragedy (Asongu and Ssozi, 2016;Asongu 2016b). Beyond this narrative on paradigm shifts, some indicators of good governance cannot be effectively measured without some employment of preliminary techniques to bundle governance variables into composite indicators.…”

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Fighting terrorism in Africa: evidence from bundling and unbundling institutions

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This study assesses government mechanisms in the fight against terrorism with particular emphasis on the bundling and unbundling of ten governance dynamics. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 53 African countries for period 1998-2012 and GeneralizedMethod of Moments. The following findings are established. First, for the most part, political governance and its constituents respectively have negative effects on all terrorism dynamics, with the following consistent increasing order of negative magnitude: unclear terrorism, transnational terrorism, domestic terrorism and total terrorism. Second, overwhelmingly for economic and institutional governances, the governance dynamics and their constituent components affect terrorism negatively, with the magnitude on domestic terrorism consistently higher than that on transnational terrorism. Third, for most specifications, the effect of general governance is consistently negative on terrorism variables.Theoretical and practical policy implications are discussed.

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“…optimists, pessimists and accommodators (Asongu & Aminkeng, 2013;Asongu, 2016a) China, the USA's foreign policy is guided by the same terms of resource/oil diplomacy.…”

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“…Third, on the debate over whether economic rights should precede political rights, there is some consensus in the literature that the Beijing model should be prioritised as a short-term development model whereas the Washington consensus should be the long term development goal (Moyo, 2013;Asongu, 2016a;Asongu & Ssozi, 2016). This is essentially based on the (i) reality that the BM has delivered a burgeoning middle class to China within a spectacularly short spell of time and (ii) the hypothesis that the WC is a more sustainable and inclusive model.…”

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Reconciliation of the Washington Consensus with the Beijing Model in Africa

Asongu

Nwachukwu

2016

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In this study, we argue that an approach which will reconcile the two opposing camps in SinoAfrican relations and bring the most progress is a "middle passage" that greases contradictions and offers an accommodative, balanced and pragmatic vision on which Africans can unite. We present a case under which countries can substantially enhance the prospect of development if an African consensus builds on a merger between the Western and Chinese models. We balance national interest with human rights, sovereign authority with individual rights and economic goals with political rights. The chapter presents arguments on the need for a development paradigm in Africa that reconciles the Washington Consensus with the Beijing Model. The analytical framework is organised in three main strands, notably:

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“…More specific contemporary middle class African development literature has focused on four main themes, namely, the: measurement of the middle class (Resnick, 2015a(Resnick, , 2015bCheeseman, 2015;Mattes, 2015;Shimeles & Ncube, 2015;Tschirley et al, 2015;Thurlow et al, 2015); relationship between the middle class and economic growth (Tschirley et al, 2015;Handley, 2015); nexus between governance and the middle class (Mattes, 2015;Cheeseman, 2015;Resnick, 2015b) and the role of the middle class in debates between the relevance of the Washington Consensus (WC) versus the Beijing Model (BM) in African development Asongu, 2016b).…”

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Understanding Sub-Saharan Africa's Extreme Poverty Tragedy

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Roux

2018

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Motivated by a recent World Bank report on achieving of Millennium Development Goals which shows that poverty has been declining in all regions of the world with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this study puts some empirical structure to theoretical and qualitative studies on the reconciliation of the Beijing Model with the Washington Consensus.It tests the hypothesis that compared to middle income countries, low income countries would achieve more inclusive development by focusing on economic governance as opposed to political governance. The empirical evidence is based on interactive and non-interactive fixed effects regressions and 49 countries in SSA for the period 2000-2012. The findings confirm the investigated hypothesis. As the main policy implication, in order to address inclusive development challenges in the post-2015 development agenda in SSA, it would benefit low income countries in the sub-region to prioritise economic governance. Other theoretical and practical contributions are also discussed.

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Sino‐African Relations: A Review and Reconciliation of Dominant Schools of Thought

Abstract: We review about 100 papers on Sino-African relations published during the past 5 years for the most part, in order to put some structure on the existing strands. The literature is classified

Cited by 38 publications

References 93 publications

Fighting terrorism in Africa: evidence from bundling and unbundling institutions

Fighting terrorism in Africa: evidence from bundling and unbundling institutions

Reconciliation of the Washington Consensus with the Beijing Model in Africa

Understanding Sub-Saharan Africa's Extreme Poverty Tragedy

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