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.

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.