Trade between China, Africa and the Middle East has rapidly expanded over the past thirty years. However, the economic … different kinds of trade. I utilize this heterogeneity to analyze the determinants of Chinese trade with 65 countries in Africa … monolithic treatment Africa often gets in the existing literature …

China Africa Research Initiative, Johns Hopkins University and UN-COMTRADE product data classified into oil/ minerals … analyse the motives. The results indicate that oil/minerals are not the motives behind China's aid to Africa. However, China … enhances more financial aid to Africa. The findings of this study serve as recommendations for policymakers to improve trade …

China's loan data obtained from the China Africa Research Initiative, Johns Hopkins University and UN-COMTRADE product data …'s aid to Africa. However, China's aid is driven by its manufacturing exports, suggesting that aid may be tied to trade. Also …, the institutional structure enhances more financial aid to Africa. The findings of this study serve as recommendations for …

Africa-China trade boomed since the 1990s, which some claim to have been driven by a search for oil. However, existing … techniques indicate that China’s oil/minerals imports from Africa is higher than imports of manufacturing and agricultural goods … given that China crowds out Africa’s manufactured goods. Also, proxies of institutional quality indicate that a weak …

This paper investigated the determinants of China’s FDI flow in Africa’s oil/minerals exporting countries from 2003 to … FDI flow. In other words, China’s FDI flow in Africa is inclined toward the extractive sector. Furthermore, the …

-Saharan Africa, which the World Bank hopes to see further expanded so as to ignite industrialization. These studies have looked … mainly at the Africa-side situation (i.e., what is happening in the host region). Instead, this paper focuses on China …