This study dissects with great acuteness some of the big questions on China-Africa relations in order to debunk … direction of China-Africa relations. In the mean, the relationship from an economic standpoint is promising and encouraging but … management. A number of positive signs suggest that China is heading toward the direction which would provide openings for a …

Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a … critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal … institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from over 150 recently published papers on …

Beijing Model. Both the first and second schools have core values articulated by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development …: neocolonial or pessimistic; balance-development or optimistic and accommodation schools. After the classification, we reconcile … the schools of thought in light of dominant themes and debates on development models, inter alia: (1) pessimists versus …

her operations and local businesses; exporting low quality products to Africa; and the emergence of China hindering Africa … eight main strands include, China: targeting nations with abundant natural resources; focusing on countries with bad …’s development. …

’s economic diplomatic strategies and discusses lessons for Africa, China and the West. It contributes to existing literature by … fronts. This is increasingly evident because China’s economic diplomacy has been politely and strategically coined to achieve … just that. A case study is used here to articulate the currents of the survey. The paper puts some structure on China …

problem is at the heart of rational asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality … African countries, inequality in development increases and African may not catch-up with the developed world. As an ideal … not be so apparent. Implications for the corresponding upward bias in endogenous development and catch-up literature are …

development matter in the impact of aid on development. In substance its object is to assess if threshold development conditions … are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign aid in Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The panel quantile regression … technique enables us to investigate if the relationship between development dynamics and development assistance differs …