Does China's Overseas Lending Favor the One Belt One Road Countries?

Zhang, Yifei; Fang, Heyang

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3508589

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“…In addition, the results indicate that the nature and extent of the initial government response significantly affects the rate of spread, level of infection and mortality of Covid-19. These results extend those of Fang et al [2], Zhang et al [7] and Zimmermann et al [6] who analyzed the factors that explain the spread of the new coronavirus.…”

Section: Conclusion Remarks and Implicationssupporting

confidence: 90%

“…In addition, we show that the nature and level of rigour of the initial government measures explain the speed of spread, the level of infection and the mortality rate of the virus. Our results extend those of Zhang et al [7] and Fang et al [2] who have worked on the factors that explain the spread of Covid-19, without explicitly examining the consequences of government reactivity on the spread of this virus.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Our review contributes to the existing literature in that it relates to the economics and epidemiological literature of factors influencing the spread of pandemic infectious diseases [7,2,9,13,15,16]. In addition, we explain the average number of cases of illness or death directly caused by the laxity of some governments in taking rapid response measures against the spread of the pandemic.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Studies on the Covid-19 pandemic are mainly focused on the factors that explain the differentials in contamination levels and mortality rates between countries, although other studies are looking at the economic and social consequences of this pandemic. Thus, governance, climate and geography are presented as the main factors explaining the speed of spread and level of mortality of this virus in the world [8,5,4,6,1,3,7,2,9].…”

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Governance and the New Corona Virus (COVID-19) Outbreak in the World: Empirical Evidence

Ghislain

Messsono

Homère

et al. 2021

IJTDH

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Aims: This paper aims to analyze the effect of public governance on the spread and mortality of the new corona virus. It focuses on the effects of differences observed in government’s responsiveness on the spread and mortality of this pandemic around the world. Sample: Our study is based on a sample of 129 countries from December, 8th 2019 to May 5th, 2020. Methods: The Ordinary Least Squares method is applied to cross-sectional data. We also proceed by descriptive statistics and scatter analyses to access the effect of public governance on the spread and the mortality of the Covid-19. Results: The results obtained show that government response time favors the speed of spread, level of infection, and mortality related to the Covid-19. The results indicate that countries in which governments have reacted early have lower levels of contamination and deaths than those that reacted late. Finally, our results suggest that the stringency of early government measures is a capital factor explaining the spread and mortality of this virus. Our results are robust to regional specificities, which distinguish relatively more resilient developing countries from developed countries with higher levels of contagion and mortality. Then, we recommend for all categories of countries a greater speed and rigour in government responsiveness in the management of pandemic diseases.

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Section: Conclusion Remarks and Implicationssupporting

confidence: 90%

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Conclusion Remarks and Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Propagation Factors Of Covid-19: a Selective Review Of The Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Governance and the New Corona Virus (COVID-19) Outbreak in the World: Empirical Evidence

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Messsono

Homère

et al. 2021

IJTDH

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“…Much of the infrastructure has been financed by the Chinese policy and commercial banks and a significant share of Chinese loans in recent years has gone to BRI countries. One empirical study has found that countries that sign up for the BRI have received significantly more loans from China than those that have not (Zhang and Fang, 2020). The other side of increased loans is the growing indebtedness of the countries involved, giving rise to concerns over debt sustainability for a number of countries (Bandiera and Tsiropoulos, 2020; Hurley et al, 2018).…”

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China's Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America: What has Changed?

Jenkins

2021

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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When China invited the Latin American countries to participate in the Belt and Road Initiative, it fuelled expectations of a much closer and more productive relationship with the region. In practice, however, there is little evidence that this was happening even before the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. The article shows that neither the policy statements by China nor the trends in economic relations indicate a substantive change in Sino–Latin American relations and that the Belt and Road Initiative represents a repackaging of existing relations and the continuation of trends that have been underway since the global financial crisis.

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The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation

Calabrese,

Jenkins,

Lombardozzi

2024

Eur J Dev Res

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Structural transformation is among the core questions in development economics, but in recent decades, the discipline has shifted its focus away from production and transformation in favour of analyses on exchange, growth and productivity. Yet, the structural transformation question remains central, and needs to be confronted with the main changes in the global economic and political landscape, such as the emergence of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). With its emphasis on an infrastructure-based connectivity agenda, the BRI opens the space for a paradigm shift in development, and for a renewed emphasis on structural transformation. This article introduces a special issue that explores the role of the BRI in promoting structural transformation in low- and middle-income countries, to understand if and under which conditions the BRI creates pathways that can change the structure of the economies. Through an explicit focus on the role of BRI on transformation in low- and middle-income countries, this special issue examines how domestic institutions regulate and coordinate production diversification, national and international sectoral specificities, and drivers and barriers to technological innovation and trade. In this sense, the special issue sheds light on new conceptualisations and empirical examples of industrial policies.

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Does China's Overseas Lending Favor the One Belt One Road Countries?

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Governance and the New Corona Virus (COVID-19) Outbreak in the World: Empirical Evidence

Governance and the New Corona Virus (COVID-19) Outbreak in the World: Empirical Evidence

China's Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America: What has Changed?

The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation

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