Add to ORKGAfrica’s growing debt has been increasingly framed as a consequence of China’s alleged aims of unscrupulously lending money to gain political leverage and seize African assets when states default. New research challenges this narrative and examines the continent’s debt position in relation to global institutional frameworks. Harry Verhoeven and Nicolas Lippolis argue that new Western-led initiatives, which mostly ignore Chinese concerns and incentives, leave debt issues unresolved and create zero-sum thinking about Africa’s structural indebtedness
China’s increasing engagement in Africa has generated heated debates over the extent to which its a...
Sub-Saharan Africa includes 34 of the 42 countries classified as “Heavily Indebted Poor Countries” b...
Conventional wisdom suggests United States’ economic foreign aid is wasted and should be cut. In cha...
China's ties with Africa are evolving into a multi-faceted relationship of increasing complexity. Af...
Acknowledging a growing new concern about China across the Global North in general, and in the U.S. ...
In a period where Western donors and economic powers are occupied with own domestic issues, China in...
China, held up as an unabashed supporter of non-conditional finance for rapid development in the Glo...
Chinese investment activity in Africa has skyrocketed in recent years, outpacing every other nation ...
China's ties with Africa are evolving into a multi-faceted relationship of increasing complexity. Af...
As China has risen as a global power, its strategy has expanded for engaging Africa. But what has be...
The continent of Africa is considered a developing region due to the high rate of poverty and lack o...
Using Pew’s 2013 Global Attitudes Survey data, we probe whether China is beating the U.S. in the bat...
The article examines China’s geo-economic interest in Africa. China intends to exercise its leverage...
China’s rising investment and aid flows into Africa have raised concerns over its increasing influen...
As China‟s economy rise in the world order, there is a higher demand for more resources in Africa. C...
China’s increasing engagement in Africa has generated heated debates over the extent to which its a...
Sub-Saharan Africa includes 34 of the 42 countries classified as “Heavily Indebted Poor Countries” b...
Conventional wisdom suggests United States’ economic foreign aid is wasted and should be cut. In cha...
China's ties with Africa are evolving into a multi-faceted relationship of increasing complexity. Af...
Acknowledging a growing new concern about China across the Global North in general, and in the U.S. ...
In a period where Western donors and economic powers are occupied with own domestic issues, China in...
China, held up as an unabashed supporter of non-conditional finance for rapid development in the Glo...
Chinese investment activity in Africa has skyrocketed in recent years, outpacing every other nation ...
China's ties with Africa are evolving into a multi-faceted relationship of increasing complexity. Af...
As China has risen as a global power, its strategy has expanded for engaging Africa. But what has be...
The continent of Africa is considered a developing region due to the high rate of poverty and lack o...
Using Pew’s 2013 Global Attitudes Survey data, we probe whether China is beating the U.S. in the bat...
The article examines China’s geo-economic interest in Africa. China intends to exercise its leverage...
China’s rising investment and aid flows into Africa have raised concerns over its increasing influen...
As China‟s economy rise in the world order, there is a higher demand for more resources in Africa. C...
China’s increasing engagement in Africa has generated heated debates over the extent to which its a...
Sub-Saharan Africa includes 34 of the 42 countries classified as “Heavily Indebted Poor Countries” b...
Conventional wisdom suggests United States’ economic foreign aid is wasted and should be cut. In cha...