Understanding Chinese Economic 3 Engagement in the Africa Continent
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description: This thesis intends to investigate China’s economic engagement in Africa, which has been of great debates. Currently, China has become one of the most influential partners of African countries, and China has been seeing an increasingly important presence in the global financial market. Also, the global economic landscape has changed dramatically on account of the fact that the emerging economies have been driving global economic growth. Hence, it is impossible to investigate the global economic landscape without considering the economic development and engagement of emerging economies. Whereas, their economic engagement in the global market has been also received a great deal of criticisms. For instance, researchers concern that natural resources extraction is the primary objectives of China’s economic engagement in Africa where natural resources are abundant. Also, they doubt the effectiveness of Chinese aid projects in the African regions. Therefore, this thesis aims to empirically examine Chinese economic engagement in Africa, and thus test relevant concerns about this engagement. Our first paper empirically investigates the nexus of China’s direct investment in and international trade with 54 African countries between 2003 and 2014 to estimate the extent to which Chinese investments affect its trade with the continent, with the intention to shed light on the political motivation behind these economic activities. Our overall findings suggest that Chinese investments are correlated with more subsequent exports of consumption and processed goods from China, an indicator of market-seeking motivation of the country’s investment activities in the continent. In our second paper, we employ the georeferenced and subnational dataset on China’s aid projects, nighttime light intensity and local corruption collected by the Afrobarometer surveys in order to estimate the effectiveness of China’s aid projects in Africa and test whether local corruption negatively affects this e…
abstract: This thesis intends to investigate China’s economic engagement in Africa, which has been of great debates. Currently, China has become one of the most influential partners of African countries, and China has been seeing an increasingly important presence in the global financial market. Also, the global economic landscape has changed dramatically on account of the fact that the emerging economies have been driving global economic growth. Hence, it is impossible to investigate the global economic landscape without considering the economic development and engagement of emerging economies. Whereas, their economic engagement in the global market has been also received a great deal of criticisms. For instance, researchers concern that natural resources extraction is the primary objectives of China’s economic engagement in Africa where natural resources are abundant. Also, they doubt the effectiveness of Chinese aid projects in the African regions. Therefore, this thesis aims to empirically examine Chinese economic engagement in Africa, and thus test relevant concerns about this engagement. Our first paper empirically investigates the nexus of China’s direct investment in and international trade with 54 African countries between 2003 and 2014 to estimate the extent to which Chinese investments affect its trade with the continent, with the intention to shed light on the political motivation behind these economic activities. Our overall findings suggest that Chinese investments are correlated with more subsequent exports of consumption and processed goods from China, an indicator of market-seeking motivation of the country’s investment activities in the continent. In our second paper, we employ the georeferenced and subnational dataset on China’s aid projects, nighttime light intensity and local corruption collected by the Afrobarometer surveys in order to estimate the effectiveness of China’s aid projects in Africa and test whether local corruption negatively affects this e…
author: Zhang, Qiyue
license: https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/bitstreams/ace1230e-c5f5-43d9-92e8-7b2c9e43c3da/download
date published: 2022
date modified: 2026-07-24T06:18:54Z
provider: De Montfort University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: De Montfort University