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    The understanding and practice of development in China and the European Union

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    China’s role in international development rose to prominence in the mid-2000s, when new Chinese actors began engaging in public and private activities in the global South.
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    Engaging an emerging superpower: understanding China as a foreign policy actor

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2012
    To engage China, outsiders first need to understand that making foreign policy in China has become a more decentralised process than ever before. There are multiple nuanced views about the country’s role in the world and foreigners should not begin with a preset perception, whether that it is of a peaceful, status quo power or of a rising threat set on world domination.
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    Africa, China and the ‘new’ economic geography of development

    Open Research Online, 2009
    This article discusses the economic geography of development in Africa and the role played by China in developments on the continent. It questions China’s intentions and motivations for engagement with Africa, including China’s need to fuel its burgeoning capitalist economy, as well as imperialist concerns.
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    The developmental impact of Asian drivers on Ethiopia with emphasis on small-scale footwear producers

    Wiley Online Library, 2009
    This paper examines the developmental impact of China and India on Ethiopia by examining macro-level trade, investment and aid relations, and micro-level impacts on local small-scale footwear producers in Ethiopia. Both secondary and primary data were used in the study. At the macro level, there is clear evidence of an increase in trade between Ethiopia and China and India.
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    China's private enterprises in Africa and the implications for African development

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Studies on the involvement of China’s private business sector in Africa have predominantly focused on China’s state-owned enterprises in extractive industries; much less attention has been paid to Chinese private enterprises. This study evaluates characteristics and motivations of Chinese private firms in Africa and assesses the developmental impacts of their actions.
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    Transparency of Chinese aid: an analysis of the published information on Chinese external financial flows

    Publish What You Fund, 2011
    There are many myths and misconceptions about the level of information publically available on Chinese efforts and activities in the developing world. With the growing momentum around ‘aid transparency’ since the Third High Level Forum on aid effectiveness (HLF-3) in Accra in 2008, this paper on China’s aid information was prepared to provide a firmer footing for the discussions going forward.
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    China, Africa and the international aid architecture

    African Development Bank, 2010
    This paper analyses China’s growing foreign aid and export credit programme as an element of the changing international aid architecture.
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    Whose aid? Whose influence? China, emerging donors and the silent revolution in development assistance

    Global Economic Governance Programme, University College Oxford, 2011
    The term ‘emerging donors’ is used as a shorthand to contrast states such as China, India and Brazil with members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC), who are also referred to as ‘established donors’.
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    BRICs’ philosophies for development financing and their implications for LICs

    International Monetary Fund, 2012
    Flows of development financing from the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) to low income countries (LICs) have surged in recent years. Unlike aid from traditional donors, BRICs (excluding Russia) view their financing as primarily based on the principles of South-South cooperation, focusing on mutual benefits without attachment of policy conditionality.
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    Brazil and China: South-South partnership or North-South competition?

    Brookings Institution, 2011
    This paper focuses on Brazil-China relations and sheds some light on the possibilities and limits of meaningful coalitions amongst emerging countries.

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