eprintid: 24209
rev_number: 15
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3114
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datestamp: 2018-03-23 12:44:39
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status_changed: 2018-03-23 12:44:39
type: workingPaper
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creators_name: Eichenauer, Vera Z.
creators_name: Fuchs, Andreas
creators_name: Brueckner, Lutz
title: The Effects of Trade, Aid, and Investment on China's Image in Developing Countries
subjects: 330
divisions: 181000
cterms_swd: public opinion
cterms_swd: exports
cterms_swd: development assistance
cterms_swd: foreign direct investment
cterms_swd: China
cterms_swd: Latin America
cterms_swd: anti-Sinicism
cterms_swd: soft power
abstract: One goal of China’s Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China’s growing economic engagement has provoked much criticism. This paper is the first to study whether these activities change the attitudes of individuals in developing countries towards China at both the national and subnational level. Using repeated cross-sectional survey data from the Latinobarómetro, we analyze whether and how growing amounts of exports, foreign aid, and foreign direct investment from China to Latin America affect opinions on China within 18 Latin American countries over the 2002-2013 period. We run instrumental-variables regressions by exploiting exogenous variation in the supply of Chinese exports, aid, and investment proxied by China’s market penetration of developing countries outside Latin America. In contrast to the widespread criticism, we do not find evidence that China’s growing economic activities in the respective countries deteriorate average attitudes towards China — neither at the national nor the provincial level. However, our results show that the young, educated, and economically privileged population develops more positive views of China. We interpret this as evidence that China’s economic engagement creates winners and losers.
date: 2018-03-22
publisher: University of Heidelberg
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00024209
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0646
ppn_swb: 1654785881
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-242095
language: eng
bibsort: EICHENAUERTHEEFFECTS20180322
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series
volume: 0646
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Eichenauer, Vera Z. ; Fuchs, Andreas ; Brueckner, Lutz  (2018) The Effects of Trade, Aid, and Investment on China's Image in Developing Countries.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/24209/1/__ad.uni-heidelberg.de_wiso_u.arnold_Desktop_Eichenauer%2C%20Fuchs%2C%20Brueckner_2018_dp646.pdf