Chinese exports to Africa: Competition, complementarity and cooperation between micro-level actors

Forum for Development Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 157-176

  Haugen, Heidi Østbø ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Africa; China; Global economic crisis; International trade; Migration; Small scale entrepreneurs

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); ENTREPRENEUR; EXPORT; FINANCIAL CRISIS; GLOBAL ECONOMY; IMPORT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; TRADE RELATIONS; UNITED NATIONS;

AFRICA; CHINA;

EID: 79959341049     PISSN: 08039410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2011.572286     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. AfDB and OECD, 2010, African Economic Outlook 2010, Tunis: African Development Bank and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
2. Alden, C. and D. Large, 2011, 'China's exceptionalism and the challenges of delivering difference in Africa', Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 20, No. 68, pp. 21-38.
3. Arieff, A., M.A. Weiss and V.C. Jones, 2010, 'The global economic crisis: Impact on Sub-Saharan Africa and global policy responses', in CRS Report for Congress, Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC, issued April 6.
4. Axelsson, L. and N. Sylvanus, 2010, 'Navigating Chinese textile networks: Women traders in Accra and Lomé', in F. Cheru and C. Obi, eds. The Rise of China and India in Africa, London: Zed Books, pp. 132-141.
5. Bertoncello, B. and S. Bredeloup, 2007, 'The emergence of new African 'Trading Posts' in Hong Kong and Guangzhou', in China Perspectives, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 94-105.
6. Bertoncello, B. and S. Bredeloup, 2009, 'Chine-Afrique ou la valse des entrepreneurs-migrants', Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 45-70.
7. Bodomo, A., 2010, 'The African Trading Community in Guangzhou: An emerging bridge for Africa-China relations', The China Quarterly, Vol. 203, No. 4, pp. 693-707.
8. Bourdarias, F., 2009, 'Migrants chinois au Mali: une pluralité de mondes sociaux', Revue européenne des migrations internationales, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 7-24.
9. Brautigam, D., 2009, The Dragon's Gift. The Real Story of China in Africa, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
10. Bredeloup, S., 2008, 'Les entrepreneurs migrants chinois au Sénégal. La métaphore du jeu de go?', in M.C. Diop, ed. Le Sénégal des migrations: mobilités, identités et sociétés, Dakar: Crepos, pp. 343-364.
11. Carling, J. and H.ø. Haugen, 2008, 'Mixed fates of a popular minority: Chinese migrants in Cape Verde', in C. Alden, D. Large and R. Soares de Oliviera, eds. China Returns to Africa. A Rising Power and a Continent Embrace, London: Hurst and Company, pp. 319-338.
12. China Daily, 2009, 'Cape Verde special July 27 2009', China Daily, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2009-07/27/content-8474682.htm
13. Dobler, G., 2008, 'Solidarity, xenophobia and the regulation of Chinese businesses in Namibia, in C. Alden, D. Large and R. Soares de Oliveira', in China Returns to Africa. A Rising Power and a Continent Embrace, London: Hurst and Company, pp. 237-256.
14. Dobler, G., 2009, 'Chinese shops and the formation of a Chinese expatriate community in Namibia', The China Quarterly, No. 199, pp. 707-727.
15. Economic Information Daily, 2009, Guangzhou Feizhou yi juji qu jianwen [Information about African immigrants in Guangzhou], Jingji Cankao Bao, http://jjckb.xinhuanet.com/whsh/2009-10/14/content-185139.htm
16. Esteban, M., 2010, 'A silent invasion? African views on the growing Chinese presence in Africa: The case of Equatorial Guinea', African and Asian Studies, Vol. 9, pp. 232-251.
17. FOCAC, 2000a, 'China and Africa usher in the new century together'. Speech by President Jiang Zemin of the People's Republic of China at the opening ceremony of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Ministerial Conference Beijing 2000, http://www.focac.org/eng/ltda/dyjbzjhy/SP12009/t606804.htm
18. FOCAC, 2000b, 'Strengthen solidarity, enhance co-operation and pursue common development'. Speech at the Closing Ceremony of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Ministerial Conference Beijing 2000, http://www.focac.org/eng/ltda/ dyjbzjhy/SP12009/t606810.htm
19. FOCAC, 2009, 'Forum on China-Africa cooperation Sharm el Sheikh Action Plan (2010-2012)', http://www.focac.org/eng/dsjbzjhy/hywj/t626387.htm
20. Gadzala, A., 2009, 'Survival of the fittest? Kenya's jua kali and Chinese businesses', Journal of Eastern African Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 202-220.
21. Gadzala, A.W., 2010, 'From formal to informal sector employment: Examining the Chinese presence in Zambia', Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 37, No. 123, pp. 41-59.
22. Guangzhou Municipal Statistics Bureau, 2008, Guangzhou Statistical Yearbook, Beijing: China Statistics Press.
23. Haugen, H.Ø, forthcoming, 'Nigerians in China: In a second state of immobility', International Migration.
24. Haugen, H.Ø. and J. Carling, 2005, 'On the edge of the Chinese diaspora: The surge of baihuo business in an African city', Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 639-662. (Pubitemid 40830063)
25. Ho, C.G.Y., 2008, 'The "doing" and "undoing" of community: Chinese networks in Ghana', Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 46-77.
26. Hsu, E., 2007, 'Zanzibar and its Chinese communities', Population, Space and Place, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 113-124. (Pubitemid 46464305)
27. Huynh, T.T., Y.J. Park and A.Y. Chen, 2010, 'Faces of China: New Chinese migrants in South Africa, 1980s to present', African and Asian Studies, Vol. 9, pp. 286-306.
28. Kernen, A. and B. Vulliet, 2008, 'Les petits commerçants et entrepreneurs chinois au Mali et au Sénégal', Afrique contemporaine, Vol. 4, No. 228, pp. 69-94.
29. Kuang, E.M.M., 2008, 'The new Chinese migration flows to Africa', Social Science Information, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 643-659.
30. Laribee, R., 2008, 'The China shop phenomenon: Trade supply within the Chinese diaspora in South Africa', Afrika Spectrum, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 353-370.
31. Lee, M.C., 2006, 'The 21st century scramble for Africa', Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 303-330.
32. Li, Z., L.J.C. Ma and D. Xue, 2009, 'An African enclave in China: The making of a new transnational urban space', Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 699-719.
33. Llorca-Jana, M., 2009, 'Knowing the shape of demand: Britain's exports of ponchos to the Southern Cone, c. 1810s-70s', Business History, Vol. 00051, No. 00004, pp. 602-622.
34. Lyons, M. and A. Brown, 2010, 'Has mercantilism reduced urban poverty in SSA? Perception of boom, bust, and the China-Africa trade in Lome and Bamako', World Development, Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 771-782.
35. Lyons, M., A. Brown and L. Zhigang, 2008, 'The "third tier" of globalization: African traders in Guangzhou', City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 196-206.
36. Meagher, K., 2005, 'Social capital or analytical liability? Social networks and African informal economies', Global Networks, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 217-238. (Pubitemid 40925882)
37. Meagher, K., 2010, Identity Economics. Social Networks and the Informan Economy in Nigeria, Suffolk: James Currey.
38. National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2010, China Statistical Yearbook 2009, Beijing: China Statistics Press.
39. Park, Y.J., 2009, 'Chinese migration in Africa', Occasional Paper No. 24, China in Africa Project, South African Institute of International Affairs.
40. Park, Y.J. and A.Y. Chen, 2009, 'Recent Chinese migrants in small towns of post-apartheid South Africa', Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 25-44.
41. Pelican, M. and P. Tatah, 2009, 'Migration to the Gulf States and China: Local perspectives from Cameroon', African Diaspora, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 229-244.
42. Small Arms Survey, 2010, Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns, Geneva: The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
43. Smith, C.S., 2000, 'World business briefing, Asia: China forgives some African debt', The New York Times, 12 October, section B, p. 611.
44. Taylor, I., 2007, 'China's relations with Nigeria', The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 96, No. 392, pp. 631-645. (Pubitemid 350018103)
45. Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2010, 'Africa-China trading relationship', http://www.tralac.org/cause-data/images/1694/tralac-Africa- China2010.pdf
46. Ugwoke, F., 2011, 'Treating smugglers with kids gloves', The Sunday Newspaper, 27 February, p. 27.
47. UN Comtrade, 2010, 'United Nations commodity trade statistics database', http://comtrade.un.org/db/
48. Uzcátegui, J.A.R., 2009, 'The Igbo apprenticeship system and Hong Kong's role in informal education', The 108th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2-6 December.
49. Villoria, N.B., 2009, 'China and the manufacturing terms-of-trade of African exporters', Journal of African Economics, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 781-823.
50. Vircoulon, T., 2009, 'Chinese ways to survive in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo', China in Africa/Africa in China Conference, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, 27-28 August.
51. Wallis, W. and T. Burgis, 2010, 'Continent drives a harder bargain', Financial Times, 14 June, p. 1.
52. Wang, J.Y., 2007, 'What drives China's growing role in Africa?', IMF Working Paper, Washington DC: International Monetary Fund.
53. World Bank, 2009, Doing Business 2010, Washington: Palgrave MacMillian.
54. Xinhua, 2010, 'China-Africa trade to top 100 billion USD again this year', http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/business/2010-10/03/c-13540915.htm
55. Yan, H. and B. Sautman, 2010, 'Chinese farms in Zambia: From socialist to agro-imperialist engagement?', African and Asian Studies, Vol. 9, pp. 307-333.
56. Yeung, H.W.C., 2004, Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era: Towards Hybrid Capitalism, London: Routledge.
57. Zafar, A., 2007, 'The growing relationship between China and Sub-Saharan Africa: Macroeconomic, trade, investment, and aid links', World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 103-130.
58. Zhang, Li, 2008, 'Ethnic congregation in a globalizing city: The case of Guangzhou, China', Cities, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 383-395.