Economic Relationships Between Sub-Saharan Africa and China: An Alternative Theoretical and Policy Paradigm?

Alice Nicole Sindzingre ()
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Alice Nicole Sindzingre: EconomiX - EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEPN - Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, LAM - Les Afriques dans le monde - IEP Bordeaux - Sciences Po Bordeaux - Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Institut d'Études Politiques [IEP] - Bordeaux - UBM - Université Bordeaux Montaigne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: An emerging question in the literature on the relationship between China and Sub-Saharan Africa is as to whether Chinese engagements provide for developing economies an alternative paradigm to mainstream models of economic theories and policies, an example being the framework promoted by the international financial institutions (IFIs). China has indeed been analyzed as an original model of development that has shared many core elements with those having characterized the East Asian "developmental states"notably active state intervention (industrial policies), in contrast with the IFIs framework. Against this background, it is argued that the main domains of China-Sub-Saharan African economic relationships, trade, investment, development finance, generally do not illustrate the model of China as a developmental state, being mainly driven by market or development cooperation motives. In some dimensions, however, they illustrate China's specific developmental model.

Keywords: industrial policies; China-Africa economic relationships; developmental states; foreign policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-11-16
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Published in 64th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, African Studies Association (ASA), Nov 2021, Virtual conference, United States

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