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The Political Economy of Sino-South African Trade and Regional Competition

Author : Bhaso Ndzendze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030980774

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The Political Economy of Sino-South African Trade and Regional Competition by Bhaso Ndzendze Pdf

This book comparatively examines the China-South Africa trade relationship over three decades through the prism of four other relationships South Africa has with states that have been China's most contentious neighbours in the Indo-Pacific (India, Japan, Taiwan and the USA). Asia is widely expected to be the new economic centre of gravity in international relations, particularly for trade. Yet despite the story of growth for both it and its neighbours, China ranks above all these countries in terms of trade partnership with South Africa and a majority of states across the globe. This poses a puzzle answerable only through in-depth analysis. In this way, this pathbreaking new book uses quantitative data to test commonly held assumptions about the 'new scramble for Africa' and shines a light on the driving forces, interests and sources of agency in South Africa's trade and foreign policies over the past three decades. The findings allow for the deduction of general patterns applicable to South Africa and peer economies, some of whom are benchmarked throughout the book for comparative insights. Bhaso Ndzendze is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) Department of Politics and International Relations. His research on China-Africa relations has appeared in numerous leading journals and books. He was formerly Research Director at the Centre for Africa-China Studies at UJ.

The Political Economy of Sino–South African Trade and Regional Competition

Author : Bhaso Ndzendze
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030980764

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The Political Economy of Sino–South African Trade and Regional Competition by Bhaso Ndzendze Pdf

This book comparatively examines the China–South Africa trade relationship over three decades through the prism of four other relationships South Africa has with states that have been China’s most contentious neighbours in the Indo-Pacific (India, Japan, Taiwan and the USA). Asia is widely expected to be the new economic centre of gravity in international relations, particularly for trade. Yet despite the story of growth for both it and its neighbours, China ranks above all these countries in terms of trade partnership with South Africa and a majority of states across the globe. This poses a puzzle answerable only through in-depth analysis. In this way, this pathbreaking new book uses quantitative data to test commonly held assumptions about the ‘new scramble for Africa’ and shines a light on the driving forces, interests and sources of agency in South Africa’s trade and foreign policies over the past three decades. The findings allow for the deduction of general patterns applicable to South Africa and peer economies, some of whom are benchmarked throughout the book for comparative insights.

The Political Economy of China's Provinces

Author : Hans Hendrischke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134621002

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The Political Economy of China's Provinces by Hans Hendrischke Pdf

Traditionally, political scientists and economists have seen China as a single entity and business people have seen China as a single market. This book challenges the notion of a centralised and unified China, and outlines how provinces are taking on new economic and political roles, forced upon them by decentralisation.It is the most thorough data on contemporary Chinese provinces available and will be of great interest to researchers and graduate students of politics, economics and business as well as Asian studies.

South Africa–China Relations

Author : Chris Alden,Yu-Shan Wu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030547684

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South Africa–China Relations by Chris Alden,Yu-Shan Wu Pdf

With the pace of trade and investment picking up, coupled with closer international cooperation with Beijing through the G20, FOCAC and BRICS grouping, South Africa-China ties are assuming a significant position in continental and even global affairs. At the same time, it is a relationship of paradoxes, breaking with many of the assumptions that underpin contemporary analyses of ‘China-Africa’ ties. This edited volume examines the South Africa-China relationship through a survey of its diplomatic partnership, economic ties, and broader community relations. These important aspects that are often conflated as a single relationship, yet what is important to explore are how these components reflect different China-South Africa relationship(s), and how they intersect.

The Rise of China and India in Africa

Author : Fantu Cheru,Cyril Obi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848134393

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The Rise of China and India in Africa by Fantu Cheru,Cyril Obi Pdf

In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive demands from both countries, little research exists on the actual impact of China and India's growing involvement on Africa's economic transformation. This book examines in detail the opportunities and challenges posed by the increasing presence of China and India in Africa, and proposes critical interventions that African governments must undertake in order to negotiate with China and India from a stronger and more informed platform.

South African Business in China

Author : Kelly Meng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000553604

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South African Business in China by Kelly Meng Pdf

Sino-African relations have evoked a great deal of geo-strategic interest in recent years. Most attention has focused on China’s assistance to and growing involvement in the economic development of several African nations. Far less emphasis has been placed on Africans in China, and on African actors’ involvement in the Chinese economy, despite the importance of both to genuinely bilateral economic relations. This is one of the first studies to focus on South African foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mainland China. The research aims to identify and specify the key institutional factors that have contributed to the effectiveness or otherwise of South African firms entering and operating within the Chinese market. The research also investigates the characteristics and processes that have effectively shaped South African firms’ business strategies to negotiate the current Chinese institutional environment. The study’s primary empirical contribution is ten real-life case studies drawn from a cross-section of South African business actors who have sought to penetrate the Chinese market. These case studies are interrogated conceptually by means of a three-dimensional institutional model which explores the role of formal and informal business processes and practices in influencing business success and failure in the Sino-South African context. It will be of value to researchers, academics, policymakers, Sino-African business practitioners, and advanced students in the fields of international business, political economy, strategy, and Asian and African studies.

Mega-regionalism and Great Power Geo-economic Competition

Author : Xianbai Ji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000454970

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Mega-regionalism and Great Power Geo-economic Competition by Xianbai Ji Pdf

The regional trade governance architecture is in flux. The latest wave of regionalism in the form of mega-regional trade partnerships between countries with major shares of the world economy occurred in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09. The most systematically important mega-FTAs included the Trans-Pacific Partnership led by the United States (US), the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the European Union (EU) and the US. Drawing on policy diffusion and competitive regionalism literatures, Xianbai Ji develops an innovative model of competitive spill-over to uncover the historical and contemporary sources of mega-regionalism resulting from a temporal clustering of mega-FTA initiatives from great powers. In the book, mega-FTA is conceptualised as an instrument of geo-economic competition between the US, China, and the EU. Each aspired to leverage its mega-FTA to gain an edge over its rivals in economic, geopolitical, and legal terms. Through a mix-method research strategy involving computable general equilibrium modelling, game theory, desk research, and perception survey, Ji generates an impressive chorus of quantitative, qualitative, and perceptual data demonstrating that the rise of mega-regionalism was driven by the multidimensional competition between the US, China, and the EU over international economic benefits, geopolitical influence, and the authority to write rules governing emerging trade issues. This book will attract academics, think tankers, practitioners, and postgraduate students interested in regionalism, international trade, international political economy, applied trade policy analysis, great power competition, geo-economics, and international relations.

Negotiating South-South Regional Trade Agreements

Author : Gbadebo Odularu,Bamidele Adekunle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319455693

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Negotiating South-South Regional Trade Agreements by Gbadebo Odularu,Bamidele Adekunle Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of South-South regional trade issues, with a particular focus on sustainably fostering Africa’s regional trade agenda. It examines the extent to which South-South regional trade agreements (RTAs) have contributed toward enhancing regional integration and economic expansion in Africa in particular, and in the South in general. The authors recommend new conceptual frameworks, appropriate initiatives, and workable policy recipes to help South-South RTAs enhance Africa’s economic transformation trajectory. The book underscores the geo-politics, as well as the opportunities and challenges that emerging economies now represent for Africa in the context of South-South regional trade policy. Readers will learn how Africa can strengthen its regional trade game by securing and building on the positive outcomes of South-South RTAs.

The Political Economy of China’s Infrastructure Development in Africa

Author : Tim Zajontz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031444494

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The Political Economy of China’s Infrastructure Development in Africa by Tim Zajontz Pdf

This book sheds light on structural drivers that led to the Chinese omnipresence in African infrastructure markets and offers a strategic-relational approach to the study of African agency in Sino-African infrastructure encounters. Case studies cover the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), Zambia’s road sector as well as Tanzania’s Bagamoyo port and Standard Gauge Railway. It is shown that African (state) agency in the infrastructure sector is contingent upon dynamic state-society relations and distinct political-economic contexts and constraints. The book problematises contradictions related to infrastructure debt, the emergence of Sino-African public-private partnerships and the intensifying geopolitics-cum-geoeconomics of infrastructure across Africa.

China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations

Author : Li Xing,Abdulkadir Osman Farah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1138254665

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China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations by Li Xing,Abdulkadir Osman Farah Pdf

This collection seeks to put contemporary China-Africa relations in critical, comparative context and in doing so, it will go beyond descriptions of inter-regional trade and investment, large- and small-scale sectors, to ask whether structural change is underway. Already it is apparent that the growing presence of China in Africa presents the latter with some novel options but whether these will generate a new embeddedness remains problematic. Highlighting the 'varieties of capitalisms' in the new century to the apparent ebullience of the emerging economies in the global South, this book examines such implications for international relations, international political economy, development studies and policies.

China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa

Author : M. Power,G. Mohan,M. Tan-Mullins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137033666

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China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa by M. Power,G. Mohan,M. Tan-Mullins Pdf

The book seeks to understand China's evolving political and economic role in Africa and assesses what impacts Chinese aid, trade and investment have on the politics of specific African countries, and the extent to which it excites geopolitical competition.

China's Policymaking for Regional Economic Cooperation

Author : Yang Jiang,HENRIETTA LEYSER
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137347602

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China's Policymaking for Regional Economic Cooperation by Yang Jiang,HENRIETTA LEYSER Pdf

Using first-hand interview data, Yang Jiang reveals the key trends of China's trade and financial politics after its WTO accession. In particular, she highlights the influence of competing domestic interests, government agencies and different ideas on China's foreign economic policy.

China and North Africa

Author : Adel Abdel Ghafar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755641840

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China and North Africa by Adel Abdel Ghafar Pdf

As the United States slowly disengages from the Middle East and Europe faces internal challenges, a new actor is quietly exerting greater influence across North Africa: China. Beijing's growing footprint in North Africa encompasses, but is not limited to, trade, infrastructure development, ports, shipping, financial cooperation, tourism and manufacturing. It is continuing to expand its co-operation with North African countries, not only in the economic and cultural spheres, but also those of diplomacy and defence. This engagement with North Africa relates to the key aim of President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which wants to connect Asia, Africa and Europe and sees potential in North Africa's strategic geographic location. This book is the first to analyse China's role in North Africa. It comprises of five leading country experts - Anouar Boukhars, Yahia Zoubir, Sarah Yerkes, Tareki Magresi and Nael Shama – who examine the various socio-economic, political and security aspects of China's relationship with Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. The book explores how China is displaying a development model that seeks to combine authoritarianism with economic growth, a model and that has an eager audience among regimes across the MENA region. It reveals how the China-North Africa relationship fits within the broader dynamics of increasing China-US rivalry. In doing so, contributors explain why China's growing role in North Africa is likely to have far-reaching economic and geopolitical consequences for both countries in the region and around the world.

China and Africa Development Relations

Author : Christopher M. Dent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136924286

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China and Africa Development Relations by Christopher M. Dent Pdf

Provides an overview of how the China-Africa relationship has evolved over the years and examines whether it presents a different paradigm of 'development relations' in the international system. This book investigates what is particularly special about the development partnership between Africa and China.

The Political Economy of Africa

Author : Vishnu Padayachee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136989070

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The Political Economy of Africa by Vishnu Padayachee Pdf

The Political Economy of Africa addresses the real possibilities for African development in the coming decades when seen in the light of the continent’s economic performance over the last half-century. This involves an effort to emancipate our thinking from the grip of western economic models that have often ignored Africa’s diversity in their rush to peddle simple nostrums of dubious merit. The book addresses the seemingly intractable economic problems of the African continent, and traces their origins. It also brings out the instances of successful economic change, and the possibilities for economic revival and renewal. As well as surveying the variety of contemporary situations, the text will provide readers with a firm grasp of the historical background to the topic. It explores issues such as: employment and poverty social policy and security structural adjustment programs and neo-liberal globalization majority rule and democratization taxation and resource mobilization. It contains a selection of country specific case studies from a range of international contributors, many of whom have lived and worked in Africa. The book will be of particular interest to higher level students in political economy, development studies, area studies (Africa) and economics in general.