Following its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its rapid growth, China is becoming important in the world economy, including those in Africa such as Ethiopia. As Alden(2003) puts it, "at a time when the world seems preoccupied by events in the middle east and the `...
One might expect that the MDBs would compete with China to maintain influence in Africa. This study uses statistical tests and interviews with government officials in three recipient countries to see if this is the case. The results indicate that total MDB finance by country change little over ti...
the majority of Chinese in Africa are involved in trade, others are engaged in infrastructure projects such as roads, rails, ports and estates contractors. We are in the third category, focusing on industrial park development. This may not be a new phenomenon but we are trying...
China-Africa friendship has not been an overnight achievement, nor has it been gifted from on high. Rather, it has been fostered throughout the years when China and Africa supported and stood alongside each other in trying times. China has aided to the limit of its capabilities the developmen...
This study investigated China-Africa Economic and Trade ties taking Tanzania as the case study and the prime objective was to identify the main drivers for the bilateral trade and the benefits of the ties. The study draws theoretical framework from Realism, Dependency and Marxist theories of ...
New directions in the study of Africa-China media and communications engagements. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 29(1), 11-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/136 96815.2016.1270197Xin, X. (2012). How the market is changing China's news: the case of Xinhua News Agency. Lanham: Lexington ...
African swine fever (ASF) is a fatal and highly infectious haemorrhagic disease that has spread to all provinces in China—the world’s largest producer and consumer of pork. Here we use an input–output model, partial equilibrium theory and a substituti
Creating Systems of Innovation in Africa: Country Case Studies 21 CHAPTER 2 SUMMARY Science, technology, and innovation (STI) are expected to play a key role in lifting Ghana to middle-income status by 2020. Ghana is not alone in wanting to promote STI as a means to socio-economic developme...
Defining International Literary Journalism: Case Studies from South Africa, the U.S., and ChinaThe simplistic history of modern journalism commonly disseminated in western classrooms describes literary journalism and its manifestations around the world as traceable back to a single Angl...
Why does it give generous support to 31 Confucius Institutes teaching Mandarin and Chinese culture at many of Africa' top universities from the Cape to Cairo? Why is China one of the very few countries to increase the number of full scholarships for Africans to study in its universities, a ...