Publishing Institution: African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) / Political Geography: Asia

Author:: Alemayehu Geda and Atenafu G. Meskel
Publication Date:: 07-2013
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
Abstract:: This study investigated the growing relation between Ethiopia and China in the last decade. It is possible for Chinese-Africa relations to be either complementary or competitive (or indeed both) and it has multifaceted features. Notwithstanding this multifaceted linkage, the study focused on one of the channels – the investment (FDI) channel. Other channels are explored depending on the degree at which they shed light on understanding the Chinese-Ethiopian investment relations, which is the subject of this study.
Topic:: Economics, International Political Economy, International Trade and Finance, Foreign Direct Investment, and Macroeconomics
Political Geography:: Africa, China, Asia, and Ethiopia

Author:: Jean Razafindravonona, Eric Rakotomanana, and Jimmy Rajaobelina
Publication Date:: 07-2013
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
Abstract:: The rapid and spectacular expansion of the Chinese economy in the recent past is, for African countries, an opportunity to take advantage of not only in terms of strengthening the South-South cooperation, but also of developing African economies. It is thus important to define the channels through which African countries would do so. It is with this goal in mind that the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) initiated the research project on the impact of the economic relation between China and sub-Saharan African countries.
Topic:: Development, Economics, International Political Economy, International Trade and Finance, Foreign Direct Investment, Global Political Economy, and Macroeconomics
Political Geography:: Africa, China, Asia, and Madagascar

Author:: Jean‐Christophe Boungou Bazika
Publication Date:: 07-2013
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
Abstract:: The relations between China and Congo are already old since they began in 1963. However since the beginning of the 2000s, the economic relations between the two countries are characterized by an unprecedented dynamism. Congo’s exports and imports with China recorded a leap of 179.38% and 309.21% respectively for the period 2001-2005. Such a trend pushed analysts to predict that the relations between Africa and China should have a significant impact and lead to upheavals in the structure of African economies. Two tendencies emerged in the literature: the first predicts that these relations would have a negative impact, in the sense that they would provoke a competition that African producers would not be able to bear. The second predicts that these relations would enable African countries to consolidate their growth, thanks to the diversification of trade and the installation of infrastructures which were lacking - such as roads, bridges, hydro-electric dams, drinking water purification plants, etc.
Topic:: Economics, International Political Economy, International Trade and Finance, Foreign Direct Investment, Global Political Economy, and Macroeconomics
Political Geography:: Africa, China, Asia, and Republic of Congo

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