China in Mozambique: A Cautious Approach
China’s engagement with Africa has taken a different form in its relations with Mozambique, which are characterised by caution and compromise.
Chinese Provinces as Foreign Policy Actors in Africa
China’s engagement in Africa is becoming increasingly multilayered, as provinces are stepping up efforts to expand their presence in Africa.
China-Africa Trade and the Global Financial Crisis
The spectacular growth of emerging economies, especially China and India, had brought major hope among commentators/analysts that the developing world’s growth prospects would not be severely affected by the current financial crisis in the US and most of the developed world.
Emerging Powers and their Development Aid Policies
The intention of this closed brainstorming session was to explore the evolving development aid policies of the emerging powers while extracting lessons from the European development experience.
Emerging Powers and their Role in Global Economic Governance: Impetus for Reform
The phenomenal rise of China and India, but equally the growing assertion of other developing countries on the global stage such as Brazil and South Africa, has placed the debate about a reform agenda for global governance bodies squarely on the table.
‘Stepping up to the Plate: Emerging Powers and International Responsibility’
During 2007-08 the Konrad Adenauer Foundation commissioned five studies in the G5 countries that would examine these countries’ perspectives on global governance.
Banking on Africa: Chinese Financial Institutions and Africa
The Chinese drive into the resource sector in Africa has already received much attention in the media and, increasingly, in scholarly literature.
China could usher in a new era of banking in Africa
The dramatic events of the past few weeks, starting with one of the world’s most powerful investment banks — Lehman Brothers — going to the wall and insurer AIG teetering on the brink, has left a wounded western financial world licking its wounds and looking anew at its model of global finance.
Trade Policy Reports (2003-2008)
SAIIA’s Trade Policy Report series, published between July 2003 and September 2008, covers a range of trade-related issues.
Is Africa Changing China?
‘There is always something new out of Africa.’ So said Pliny the Elder two thousand years ago when considering Rome’s changing fortunes as it sought to manage its ties with the African continent.