How China is Reshaping the Global Economy: Development Impacts in Africa and Latin America

by Rhys Jenkins

China's growing economic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America has been a source of major controversy. The official Chinese position maintains that the growth of bilateral relations is of mutual benefit and provides a good example of South-South cooperation. Critics on the other hand see the economic relations between China and other developing countries as highly unequal with most of the benefits accruing to China and a few local elites. They alsopoint to negative socio-economic, political, and environmental consequences.How China is Reshaping the Global Development Impacts in Africa and Latin-America throws more light on these controversies through a comparative study of China's impact on the two regions. It looks not just at bilateral relations between China and the two regions but also analyses the changes in the global economy brought about as a result of the shift in economic activity from North America and Western Europe to Asia.How China is Reshaping the Global Economy looks at the factors which led to rapid economic growth in China and the way in which this has affected global manufacturing, commodity markets, the international presence of Chinese companies, and financial glows. It examines the different forms of Chinese economic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, the main drivers, and economic, social, political, and environmental consequences. It ends with a comparison of the two regionsthat highlights the importance of different histories and political and institutional contexts in determining the impacts of China.

Genres: China, Nonfiction

427 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2018

Reviews

[Roberto Bovina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un libro con più di 600 pagine di cui 65 pagine di note bibliografiche un lavoro di una mole gigantesca di dati sul rapporto economico tra Cina e paesi del Sud Africa del dell'Africa subsahariana paesi dell'America Latina.
Le implicazioni economiche, sociali, ed ambientali, relative al commercio, al trasporto, all'estrazione, soprattutto di prodotti che da questi paesi vengono esportati maggiormente che sono il petrolio in primis e le materie prime come minerali rame e altri metalli preziosi, ma anche ripercussioni ambientali pesanti dovute alla estensione dei territori coltivati a soia per l'alimentazione del bestiame.

[Zhenyao Li · Rating 3 out of 5]

流水账式的中国经济和对外援助的一本书。很难说会因为这种写作方式收获什么系统的理论。
将手工业崛起氛围90年代前的乡镇企业带动竞争和90年代后开始吸引FDI并引入外国TNC技术是一个有趣的思考角度。另外将FDI的动机分为resource seeking，market seeking，efficiency seeking，strategy asset seeking比较有意思。
对于拉美和SSA的比较比较泛泛，没找到我希望看到的可以切入的有趣的信息