China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa

Power, Marcus; Mohan, Giles; Tan‐Mullins, May

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“…Hence the WACD as preemptive diplomacy as West Africa becomes a hub in the supply chain from LA to EU. And as MNCs, now from China and India as well as South Africa (hence the transition from IBSA to BRICS), have increased their investments in energy and minerals, franchises and shopping malls, so their logistics and supply chains have come to define their own regional networks (Power et al, 2012). Exponential infrastructural development will further new regionalisms on the continent in the second decade of the 21st century, symbolized by the mobile phone revolution and the roles of MTN and Celtel/Bharti, including the Mo Ibrahim …”

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African agency? Africa, South Africa and the BRICS

Shaw

2014

Int Polit

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African states, economies and societies are increasingly ambivalent about Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the BRICS), especially their latest, fifth member, South Africa, as economic growth comes with costs, shorter-and longer-term, from social to ecological. 'Emerging' economies, powers and societies may claim to be 'developmental' but they still confront challenges of governance, especially of their nonrenewable natural resources. Since 2001, Africa's GDP has expanded more quickly each year than the global average. In the past decade, only the bloc of developing Asian economies, led by China, has grown faster than Africa … … even as China slows, there is enough momentum for Africa's GDP to grow by around 5.5 per cent in 2014, the average of the past decade -faster than any other region in the world, according to the EIU. (O'Sullivan, 2014, p. 73) Divergence in rates of development between the North and the South may increase as the global South grows and challenges the dominance of the North, now beset by problems such as ageing populations, climate change and the Eurozone. The range of security strategies, as discussed by Lobell, Williams and Jesse (2015) that apply in other regions like South America may not resonate in Africa because of its distinctive

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African agency? Africa, South Africa and the BRICS

Shaw

2014

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“…A further $1 billion loan from the China Development Bank was granted in March 2009 (rising to US$1.5 billion in 2010) with a view to supporting the development of Angolan agriculture. In the first official estimate of Chinese credit to Angola, the Chinese Ambassador said in early 2011 that an estimated US$14.5 billion in credit had been provided since the end of the war from the three Chinese state banks (Power et al 2012). These credit lines have opened up well over a hundred projects in the areas of energy, agriculture, water, health, education, telecommunications, fisheries, and public works including key elements in the government's post-war National Reconstruction Programme.…”

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“…The new 'Rising Powers' are busy reshaping this context, bringing in new resources and ideas around how development can be done and new modalities of engagement. Traditional donor agencies remain a part of this picture, but their mixed record of promoting good governance (World Bank 2008b) and the ways in which rising powers have introduced new drivers of governance and development (Power et al 2012) means we must include but also look well beyond the role of aid. …”

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The Politics of Inclusive Development

Hickey

Sen²,

Bukenya³

2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes.You are not to copy documents for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ www.econstor.eu The Politics of Inclusive DevelopmentIt is now widely accepted that politics plays a signifi cant role in shaping the possibilities for inclusive development. However, the specifi c ways in which this happens across different types and forms of development, and in different contexts, remains poorly understood. This collection provides a stateof-the-art review regarding what is currently known about the politics of inclusive development. Leading academics offer systematic reviews of how politics shapes development across multiple dimensions, including through growth, natural resource governance, poverty reduction, service delivery, social protection, justice systems, the empowerment of marginalised groups, and the role of both traditional and non-traditional donors. The volume not only provides a comprehensive update but also a ground-breaking range of new directions for thinking and acting around these issues. The book's originality thus derives not only from the wide scope of its case-study material, but also from the new conceptual approaches it offers for thinking about the politics of inclusive development, and the innovative and practical suggestions for donors, policy makers, and practitioners that fl ow from this. 1 The Politics of Inclusive DevelopmentInterrogating the Evidence Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. First Edition published 2015 First published in paperback 2016This book is dedicated both to the future of our latest arrivals, Noah Jem, Shawn Michael, and Matthew Francis, and ForewordThe Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre strives to create knowledge that contributes to making states more effective and committed to achieving social justice. This is a grand goal but our partners...

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“…A significant part of this has focused on 'resource diplomacy' (Power et al 2012;Carmody et al 2012;Carmody and Taylor 2010), given China's increased demand for natural resources to fuel its growing economy. This has resulted in sometimes uneasy alliances, but also important accommodations (Corkin 2011a).…”

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New Development Encounters: China and Brazil in African Agriculture

Scoones¹,

Cabral²,

Tugendhat³

2013

IDS Bulletin

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There is currently much talk of the role of the ‘rising powers’ in Africa, and whether their engagements represent a ‘new paradigm’ in development cooperation. This article introduces this IDS Bulletin and examines Brazilian and Chinese agricultural development cooperation in Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. A wide variety of forms of support are seen, involving different financial modalities, including aid, concessional loans, trade deals and commercial investment. Our focus is on the ‘encounters’ that occur during negotiations and the intersection of wider framing discourses with practices on the ground in particular projects. Brazilian and Chinese domestic political dynamics, competing social imaginaries and histories of agrarian change all shape development cooperation. Meanwhile, African governments are not just passive recipients; they exert agency in negotiations, trading off different players. Outcomes depend on the particular context, and the new aid and investment scene in African agriculture is highly varied, presenting opportunities as well as challenges for the future.

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China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa

Cited by 75 publications

References 157 publications

African agency? Africa, South Africa and the BRICS

African agency? Africa, South Africa and the BRICS

The Politics of Inclusive Development

New Development Encounters: China and Brazil in African Agriculture

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