{"id":3011,"date":"2012-03-13T00:59:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T00:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2012-03-28T18:43:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T18:43:13","slug":"china-and-africa-a-love-story-a-critical-analysis-of-chinas-financial-assistance-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=3011","title":{"rendered":"China and Africa : A love story ? A critical analysis of China\u2019s financial assistance to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Carte-Chinafrique.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3012\" title=\"Carte Chinafrique\" src=\"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Carte-Chinafrique.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Carte-Chinafrique.png 255w, https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Carte-Chinafrique-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>China\u2019s growing interest in Africa has been a\u00a0matter\u00a0of several debates theses recent years. Acclaimed by African political leadership for its respect of the States\u2019 sovereignty, China&rsquo;s financial assistance is today present in almost all the countries in Africa, south of the Sahara, a region which has long been considered a traditional bastion of former European colonial superpowers. But today, a new player has constrained the masters of yesterday to reconsider their African policies. Indeed, mostly characterised by its packet of political conditionalities (human rights, democracy, good governance, etc.) western financial assistance to Africa has been always seen by several analysts as a humiliating instrument. This is the opposite of Chinese financial assistance which are generally free of any political demand. It is therefore not surprising that public opinions in Africa are more favourable to China\u2019s investment than to that of France. However, taking into account the net comparative advantage of China\u2019s investments in Africa, could we conclude that Africa can better off through Chinese investments?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 3 following papers analyse the impact of Chinese investments in some selected African Countries: Uganda, Soudan and Zambia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s growing interest in Africa has been a\u00a0matter\u00a0of several debates theses recent years. Acclaimed by African political leadership for its respect of the States\u2019 sovereignty, China&rsquo;s financial assistance is today present in almost all the countries in Africa, south of the Sahara, a region which has long been considered a traditional bastion of former European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}