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The volume of trade between China and Africa has increased from less than $10 billion in 2000 to more than US $200 billion last year, surpassing that of the United States and the colonial powers in Africa. Beijing has provided a steady stream of low interest credit to Africa, and has als...
Finland’s minister of development cooperation and foreign trade says China’s activity in Africa is leading countries across the world to up their game.
The international media raised vocalex positions on the negative impact that China's slow down might bring to the African economy. One headline read: "Chinese investment in Africa has fallen 40 per cent this year - but it's not all bad news".1 More recently, the exasperation intensified to...
AfricaChinaEconomic developmentForeign aidForeign policyInternational tradeInvestmentsCooperationCounterterrorismDiplomacyThis article peers through the public veneer of state visits and ministerial meetings to examine China's influence in Africa thr...
Interview: Ethiopia-Djibouti railway lifts China's efforts in Africa's rail network---The launch of the Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has shown China's special position in the modernization of Africa's infrastructure, Kenyan scholars said Satur
In terms of the voting proximities, we can unequivocally identify states such as Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, or Zimbabwe as having very low proximity to the U.S. while ranking with the highest proximity to China. Most of the developing world in Africa, Asia, and Latin America score...
How has this sudden increase in development resources affected the two major multilateral development banks (MDBs) in the region, the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB)? One might expect that the MDBs would compete with China to maintain influence in Africa. This study uses ...
to private Chinese corporations investing in Africa. Interesting, but not the same as sovereign, i.e. public and publicly guaranteed debt. This adds some $26 billion to AidData's figures that do not show up for the World Bank or BU. They also include $4 bn in central bank swap lines....