The West’s aid dilemma and the Chinese solution?

Wang, Xiaobing; Ozanne, Adam; Xin, Hao

doi:10.1080/14765284.2013.875287

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“…China's growing foreign aid program poses a series of challenges to the existing nexus established by the OECD-DAC and the World Bank Dreher et al, 2011). There has been extensive discussion on whether Chinese foreign aid, which allegedly does not impose political conditions on recipient countries, is a better alternative to western foreign aid in terms of fostering local capacity and good governance (Sorensen, 2010;Wang et al, 2014). Debate has centered on whether aid from China and other emerging donors has bolstered rogue states, fuelled corruption and increased the debt of poor countries (Woods, 2008).…”

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Why Give it Away When You Need it Yourself? Understanding Public Support for Foreign Aid in China

Cheng

Smyth

2015

The Journal of Development Studies

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Public support for foreign aid in donor countries is highly correlated with how much donor countries are willing to give. There is, perhaps surprisingly, relatively little evidence on the determinants of public support for foreign aid in donor countries. And the evidence that does exist is for donors that are developed democratic countries. In this study we examine the determinants of public support for foreign aid in China. China is a particularly interesting case because it is both a recipient and donor of foreign aid. Thus, one would expect that the public's perceptions of China's own development needs would influence its support for China donating to other countries. We find that while political ideology and sense of national identity are the most important determinants of support for foreign aid, several demographic characteristics are also important. We also find that those living in the lower income western provinces and in provinces with higher poverty rates express less support for giving foreign aid. We draw policy implications from the findings for better targeting engagement strategies designed to garner support for foreign aid.

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Why Give it Away When You Need it Yourself? Understanding Public Support for Foreign Aid in China

Cheng

Smyth

2015

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…China's BRI aims to assist developing countries providing an opportunity for development, respect for their rights to develop, by providing development funds, by unconditional aid, and by building infrastructure in these countries. (Wang, Ozanne, and Hao 2014;Lin and Wang 2017b). The best form of globalization is one where every country and every firm has a place in the economic ecosystem, and each country contributes to the international division of labour according to their comparative advantage, and thereby gets to enjoy the consumer products and reach a higher level of prosperity.…”

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Dual Circulation: a New Structural Economics view of development

Lin

Wang

2021

Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies

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This paper provides a detailed account of China's Dual Circulation Development Paradigm and examines its theoretical foundation from the perspective of the New Structural Economics approach. The purpose of this Paradigm is to shift the focus from foreign to domestic circulation as the major driving force for China's sustainable development, and to emphasize the importance of a positive reciprocal relationship between domestic and international economic circulations. This paper argues that aim of the Paradigm is to facilitate a qualitative leap in industrial upgrading to achieve both a higher-quality domestic circulation and a higher-level of international circulation. By explaining the development thinking from the Chinese policy-makers' perspective, this paper also casts light on growth and development issues facing other countries.

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“…It is demonstrated that China's aid has a positive impact on the recipient countries' international trade, retail, and manufacturing industries [29][30][31]. The construction of infrastructure in China's foreign aid projects has substantially boosted the economic growth of recipient countries [3,4,8,9,32]. China's assistance can also effectively mitigate the conflict caused by the abrupt withdrawal of western assistance [33,34].…”

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China’s Foreign Aid and Sustainable Growth of Recipient Countries: Mechanism and Evaluation

Wan

Chen

2022

Sustainability

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Since the beginning of the 21st century, emerging donors have developed a suite of aid innovations that play a significant role in the international financing arrangements of recipient countries. Using the OECD Creditor Reporting System (CRS) aid classification to categorize China’s foreign aid by sector, this paper examines the impact of China’s foreign aid on the economic growth of 121 recipient countries from 2000 to 2017. Our findings indicate that (1) the relationship between China’s foreign aid and recipient countries’ economic growth is “U-shaped”, with a threshold effect and primarily due to growth aid; (2) the relationship between recipient countries’ economic growth and their dependence on China’s foreign aid is “inverted U-shaped”, in both growth aid and welfare aid; (3) there is discernible regional heterogeneity in the economic impact of China’s foreign aid, and the impact may be underestimated if the endogeneity problem is not taken into account; and (4) China’s foreign aid, especially growth aid, promotes the economic growth of recipient countries through factor mobility, foreign direct investment (FDI), and international trade.

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The West’s aid dilemma and the Chinese solution?

Cited by 20 publications

References 35 publications

Why Give it Away When You Need it Yourself? Understanding Public Support for Foreign Aid in China

Why Give it Away When You Need it Yourself? Understanding Public Support for Foreign Aid in China

Dual Circulation: a New Structural Economics view of development

China’s Foreign Aid and Sustainable Growth of Recipient Countries: Mechanism and Evaluation

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