More African countries on the route: the positive and negative impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative

Ehizuelen, Michael Mitchell Omoruyi

doi:10.1080/19186444.2017.1401260

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“…1,5 The BRI brings into play a common platform to improve the capability of handling regional public health emergencies through epidemic information sharing, exchange of preventive and interventional methods, the training of health professionals, empowerment, and community-based resilience projects. 5,13,14 The Chinese government realizes that the economy and health are interlinked. It has therefore committed to increasing its medical assistance and emergency medical aid to the partner countries along the Belt and Road, and to carry out regional cooperation and coordination in maternal and child health, mental health, chronic disease-related disability, non-communicable diseases (hypertension, diabetes, stroke, cardiometabolic diseases, cancers, etc.…”

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China's Belt and Road Initiative: Incorporating public health measures toward global economic growth and shared prosperity

Tambo

Khayeka–Wandabwa

Muchiri

et al. 2019

Global Health Journal

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The unprecedented globalization of trade, travel, climate change, protectionism, and geopolitical populism, as well as pandemic health threats are no longer issues for a single nation. In the field of public health, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) offers immense opportunities for partnership and collective actions involving multiple countries to combat globalization-linked infectious and/or chronic diseases, emerging pandemics, and outbreaks of potential threats to both laboratory information management systems and health information management. The national and global health challenges have increasingly proved that economic prosperity cannot be achieved when huge knowledge and capacity gaps exist in health systems. There is thus a need for public health initiatives aimed at strengthening the health systems beyond sovereign borders to influence global geo-economics. We highlight situational insights that offer approaches and strategies for increasing public health investment and capacity development in the countries along the Belt and Road, enhancing public and global health cooperation alongside participation in disease control and elimination, promoting public health governance and data sharing for pandemic threats, and building shared values and benefits in public health through Sino-African cooperation and the BRI. Our approach also examines the values of the China's BRI in relation to public health, projections and initiatives for increasing new investment and development capacity in public health systems, and enhanced public and global health cooperation and participation toward the BRI's framework and scope.

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Section: The Value and Benefits Of Bri Public Health Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

China's Belt and Road Initiative: Incorporating public health measures toward global economic growth and shared prosperity

Tambo

Khayeka–Wandabwa

Muchiri

et al. 2019

Global Health Journal

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“…Africa, in particular, still lacks crossborder infrastructure and connectivity development; therefore, the BRI was the most important project China embarked for Africa (Chen, 2016). For instance, the power sector needs USD$450 billion to achieve 2030 sustainable development goals, while natural gas and oil industries also need USD$2 trillion to fully exploit their endowed natural resources (Ehizuelen, 2017). Besides, Africa also needs USD$37 billion for infrastructure and USD $38 billion for operation and maintenance every year to sustain the current level of development (Ehizuelen, 2017).…”

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Analysis of the Bri and China’s Ofdi in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wang¹,

Lu²,

Zhang³

et al. 2020

Singapore Econ. Rev.

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The “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) has been launched by the Chinese government in 2013. The aim was to stimulate cross-border economic development in massive geographical areas covering Asia, Oceania, Europe, Africa, and Latin America which accounts for 80% and 40% of the world population and gross domestic product (GDP), respectively. The BRI has devised an extension of the “going global” strategy to reconfigure China’s overseas sector in order to extend its spillovers, and create more development opportunities for participating countries. In practice, cross-border infrastructure was a comprehensive role to reduce transportation cost; however, the BRI was vast by nature that includes financial support, policy cooperation, investment, trade facilitation, and people-to-people exchanges for the humanitarian strategy. Against this backdrop, the overarching objective of this study was to analyze the impact of the BRI and Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on the bilateral trade between China and Sub-Saharan Africa countries. The investigation was carried out using a trade gravity model, balanced panel dataset, and multivariate regression estimation strategy for robustness checks covering 16 years. The result showed that Chinese OFDI, home, and host country’s GDP and GDP per capita income variables have a positive and statistically significant impact on the bilateral trade. Moreover, the BRI has explained positively on the bilateral trade; however, it does not have enough evidence to stimulate significantly, and it usually takes a long time for the effects of the BRI investment on trade and OFDI. The study also found that geographical distance and official exchange rates have explained negatively and statistically significant impact on the bilateral trade.

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“…Despite concerns about increased indebtedness, China's investments within the Indian Economic Circle have been generally well received in Pakistan (Khan et al ). A variable reaction has been reported more generally in Africa (Ehizuelen and Omoruyi ). Nevertheless, the Maritime Sea Road does promise the introduction of higher technology and management levels in East Africa by developing state‐owned enterprises based on the Singapore Government's Temasek Holdings model, with the export of primary products and benefits being shared by the majority of people (Gong and Ding ).…”

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China's Belt and Road Initiative: underlying economic and international relations dimensions

Rimmer

2018

Asian-Pac Economic Lit

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In reviewing the literature on the Belt and Road Initiative, attention is paid to the antecedents of China's Silk Road revival, the domestic driving forces, and the perennial search for energy security behind the policy initiated in 2013. After detailing and interpreting the Initiative's timeline, key aspects of the government's policy are analysed; its financial arrangements are noted; and the initial 64 countries covered by the Belt and Road identified. The signature Land Belt and the Sea Road components are analysed using an array of tools: economic corridors, blue economic passages, and economic circles. Reference is made to specific projects and the varied reactions stemming from other countries to the implications of China's policy implementation. Finally, an assessment of the Initiative's first five years is made before looking ahead to consider how it may dovetail with other government programs as Beijing addresses the next 45 years of its planned life.

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More African countries on the route: the positive and negative impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative

Cited by 35 publications

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China's Belt and Road Initiative: Incorporating public health measures toward global economic growth and shared prosperity

China's Belt and Road Initiative: Incorporating public health measures toward global economic growth and shared prosperity

Analysis of the Bri and China’s Ofdi in Sub-Saharan Africa

China's Belt and Road Initiative: underlying economic and international relations dimensions

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