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    The last golden land? Chinese private companies go to Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    A new dynamic presence is spreading rapidly and widely across Africa: that of Chinese private enterprises. For these firms, Africa is ‘the last golden land’ of economic opportunity.
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    Chinese agricultural investment in Africa: motives, actors and modalities

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    The agricultural link between China and Africa can be traced back to the late 1950s when China started to provide agricultural aid to Africa. Agricultural aid has remained an integral part of Chinese African aid and constitutes a significant component of China’s contemporary, more diversified agricultural engagement with the continent.
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    China-Egypt trade and investment ties – seeking a better balance

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2015
    This policy brief examines Chinese investments in Egypt and the bi-lateral trading relationship between the two countries in order to better understand the extent of economic engagement. Since 2013, a spur in high-level diplomatic exchanges led to the signing of numerous agreements, including a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership agreement.
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    BRICS: a global trade power in a multi-polar world

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Central to the narrative of emerging powers, and particularly the BRICS, is the issue of trade, as both the driver of their economic surge, the factor behind their growing economies and the platform it has given them to assert influence in global governance.
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    SAARC: the way ahead

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)—comprising India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Afghanistan and Pakistan—has been in existence as a regional grouping for almost 30 years (with Afghanistan joining in 2007). It has yet, however, to succeed in bringing about closer integration between the member countries.
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    Chinese agricultural entrepreneurship in Africa: case studies in Ghana and Nigeria

    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2015
    Agriculture is an important area of Chinese economic engagement in Africa. Since the 1960s, China has provided aid, sent experts, and trained African farmers. However, there is still little empirical research on recent Chinese agribusiness investments in Africa.
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    Assessing the impact of Chinese investment on Southeast Africa’s cotton: moving up the value chain?

    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2015
    An influx of Chinese and other Asian investment in Southeast Africa over the last decade has had a significant impact on the cotton-textile value chain in the region. Increased investment has changed the structure of tbe region's cotton market, increased competition in local markets, introduced new challenges for cotton producers, and affected relationships with local communities.
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    Neither ‘land grab’ nor ‘friendship farm:’ Chinese agricultural engagement in Angola

    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2015
    Chinese-Angolan agricultural cooperation can be divided into two phases, beginning in 2004.l n the first period, from 2004 to 2008, Chinese engagement focused on infrastructure construction. Since 2008, cooperation has centered on the development of comprehensive farm projects supported by credit from the China Development Bank.
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    Chinese financed hydropower projects in Sub-Saharan Africa

    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2015
    Hydropower energy has benefits as a renewable and local source of power, but there can be significant social and environmental risks. These risks have made international banks and aid agencies reluctant to finance large hydropower projects in recent decades.
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    Chinese agricultural engagement in Zambia: a grassroots analysis

    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2015
    Recent focus on large-scale Chinese investments in African agriculture has fueled popular misperceptions of Chinese "land grabs" and has overshadowed another unexplored-and perhaps more significant-phenomenon: the rise of medium-scale private Chinese farmers and rural entrepreneurs.

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