title: Apples and Dragon Fruits: The Determinants of Aid and Other Forms of State Financing from China to Africa
creator: Dreher, Axel
creator: Fuchs, Andreas
creator: Parks, Bradley
creator: Strange, Austin M.
creator: Tierney, Michael J.
subject: ddc-330
subject: 330 Economics
description: Chinese “aid” is a lightning rod for criticism. Policymakers, journalists, and public intellectuals claim that Beijing is using its largesse to cement alliances with political leaders, secure access to natural resources, and create exclusive  commercial opportunities for Chinese   firms—all at the expense of citizens living in developing countries. We argue that much of the controversy about Chinese “aid” stems from a failure to distinguish between China’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) and more commercially-oriented sources and types of state financing. Using a new database on China’s official financing commitments to Africa from 2000-2013, we find the allocation of Chinese ODA to be driven primarily by foreign policy considerations, while economic interests better explain the distribution of less concessional flows. These results highlight the need for better measures of an increasingly diverse set of non-Western financial activities.
date: 2016-10
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22003/1/dreher_fuchs_Parks_Strange_%27Tierney_2016_dp620.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00022003
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-220037
identifier:   Dreher, Axel ; Fuchs, Andreas ; Parks, Bradley ; Strange, Austin M. ; Tierney, Michael J.  (2016) Apples and Dragon Fruits: The Determinants of Aid and Other Forms of State Financing from China to Africa.  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22003/
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language: eng