China-Africa and an Economic Transformation

Rhys Jenkins, School of International Development, University of East Anglia This edited volume is a welcome addition to the rapidly growing academic literature on Sino-African relations.

Dr Miriam Altman, PhD, Commissioner in the South African National Planning Commission This book's accessible up-to-date assessment on the evolving trade and investment relations between China and Africa is a welcome contribution to a field that is under-studied. The asymmetry in Africa-China relations is recognised and honestly addressed, including insights into governance arrangements. Lin and Oqubay's book is academically rigorous, and also offers immensely practical guidance to Chinese and African stakeholders on how to build this partnership going forward

Stephen Chan OBE, Professor of World Politics, SOAS University of London This is an extremely important volume. In the chatter on China and Africa, the Chinese and Africans are the very ones often left out. The editors themselves represent a departure from "being spoken to" by a Western world with its own distinct interests. They have assembled a set of chapters of deep insights into collaboration in specific countries and which speak to a complex situation that indicates a changed world because of China and Africa.

Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission This book comes at a critical moment in China-Africa relations, as both sides explore ways to reach their partnership potential. The 2018 FOCAC Beijing Summit launched an ambitious cooperation agenda in support of Africa's development, as encapsulated in Agenda 2063. We also agreed to advance shared priorities on the global stage. The African Union is committed to working with China on our joint objectives towards "building an even stronger community with a shared future". As we move forward, this book, which brings together various intellectual contributions, is a useful resource that captures the concrete achievements of this partnership and highlights the opportunities for even greater impact to the benefit of the two partners.

Sven Grimm, Head of Programme at German Development Institute and Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University Arkebe Oqubay and Justin Yifu Lin have assembled a range of eminent scholars from across the globe to update the debate on one of Africa's partners that is here to stay: China. African countries' relations with China are evolving, solidifying, intensifying and diversifying - and they require constant learning and adaptation to understand. With this nuanced book, the authors illustrate that Chinese engagement is no panacea to African countries' development, yet the Chinese positive narrative of Africa is a fresh wind from the east that can be harnessed for home-grown strategic action. A key read for scholars and policy-makers alike!

Sir Richard Jolly, Honorary Professor and Research Associate, Institute of Development Studies, UK A must read - a brilliant up-to-d...

Arkebe Oqubay is a Minister and Senior Adviser to the Ethiopian Prime Minister and has been at the centre of policymaking for over twenty five years. He is a former Mayor of Addis Ababa and Minister of Works and Urban Development. He currently serves as board chair of several leading public organisations and international advisory boards. He is a research associate at the Centre of African Studies in the University of London. His work includes Made in Africa: Industrial Policy in Ethiopia (OUP, 2015); African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, and Policy (OUP, 2019); and The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (OUP, 2019). He was recognized as one of the 100 most influential Africans of 2016 and a 'leading thinker on Africa's strategic development' by the New African for his work on industrial policies. Justin Yifu Lin is Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics and Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and Professor and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2008-12. He is a councillor of the State Council and a Member of the Standing Committee, Chinese People's Political Consultation Conference, and is the author of more than twenty books including Beating the Odds: Jump-starting Developing Countries; Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation; The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off; New Structural Economics: A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy; Against the Consensus: Reflections on the Great Recession; and Demystifying the Chinese Economy.

Part I: China's Rise and the Changing Global Development Discourse 1: Justin Yifu Lin and Arkebe Oqubay: Introduction to China-Africa and an Economic Transformation 2: Linda Yueh: China's Economic Emergence and Implications for Africa 3: Celestin Monga: The Meanings and Global Externalities of China's Economic Emergence Part II: Evolving China-Africa Relations: Context, Perspectives, and Framework 4: David H. Shinn: China-Africa ties in Historical Context 5: Chris Alden: Evolving Debates and Outlooks on China-Africa Economic Ties 6: Ian Taylor: The Institutional Framework of Sino-African Relations 7: Deborah Brautigam: Chinese Loans and African Structural Transformation 8: Richard Carey and Jing Gu: China's Development Finance and African Infrastructure Development Part III: The Dynamics of China-Africa Economic Ties 9: Cyril Obi: The Changing Dynamics of Chinese Oil and Gas Engagements in Africa 10: Omolade Adunbi and Howard Stein: The Political Economy of China's Investment in Nigeria: Prometheus or Leviathan? 11: Won L. Kidane: Agreements and Dispute Settlement in China-Africa Economic Ties 12: Carlos Oya: Labour Regimes and Workplace Encounters Between China and Africa Part IV: China and Africa's Economic Transformation 13: Justin Yifu Lin and Jiajun Xu: China's Light Manufacturing and Africa's Industrialization 14: Fantu Cheru and Arkebe Oqubay: Catalyzing China-Africa Ties for Africa's Structural Transformation: Lessons from Ethiopia 15: Justin Yifu Lin and Arkebe Oqubay: The Future of China-Africa Economic Ties: New Trajectory and Possibilities