China’s Digital Silk Road in Africa and the Future of Internet Governance
The Digital Silk Road (DSR) is a Chinese policy initiative launched in 2015. Six years later, there is relatively little concrete information about what it has achieved so far. This study offers a preliminary analysis of what the DSR entails in Africa.
Vaccine Diplomacy and Beyond: New Trends in Chinese Image-Building in Africa
In the face of growing tensions between the US and China, Beijing’s relationships with the Global South are taking on particular salience.
Convergence and Divergence in Emerging Donor Finance: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Indian Exim Banks in Ethiopia
The increased prominence of new and emerging donors in Africa has captivated scholarly and public policy attention. Most scholarship has focused on analyzing the developmental (or anti-developmental) outcomes associated with non—Western influence.
International Development Lending and Global Value Chains in Africa
Participating in the process of global production fragmentation by connecting to global value chains (GVCs) provides a ‘golden’ opportunity for developing countries to access international markets and boost economies.
Chinese International Contractors in Africa: Structure and Agency
As the builders of many of Africa’s mega infrastructure projects, Chinese international construction and engineering contractors (ICECs) are a significant group of actors in Africa.
Do Chinese Infrastructure Loans Promote Entrepreneurship in African Countries?
This paper examines the impact of Chinese economic infrastructure loans on entrepreneurship for a sample of African country recipients.
Development Finance and Distributive Politics: Comparing Chinese and World Bank Finance in sub-Saharan Africa
Academic literature has dedicated limited attention to the subnational allocation of development finance. The limited literature has highlighted the role of donor interests and regime type in foreign finance allocation.
Private Security Companies in Kenya and the Impact of Chinese Actors
This paper examines the development and impact of Chinese Private Security Companies (PSCs) in Kenya. Adopting a qualitative methodology approach, the study begins with an extensive literature review, followed by the findings from a month of fieldwork conducted in Nairobi, Kenya.
Laying the Tracks: The Political Economy of Railway Development in Ethiopia’s Railway Sector and Implications for Technology Transfer
Following the international surge of Chinese capital and companies in the last decade and the rise of the Belt and Road Initiative, many African countries have sought Chinese financing and technology for significant infrastructure investments.
What is the Real Story of China’s “Hidden Debt”?
On September 29, AidData, a research lab at William & Mary,
released a detailed overview of their new data on China’s global lending,
Banking on the Belt and Road.