The economic, political and institutional ties between Latin America and China have become closer as the Chinese … economy has grown. Indeed, as a result of its rapid economic growth, China now plays a systemic role in the world economy … empirical analysis of the effects on the Latin American countries' growth of their trade and investment relations with China. It …

The analysis of China's impacts on the 44 SSA countries reveals that: (i) after joining the WTO in 2001, China has … started to impact significantly on SSA growth: one-percent increase in China's GDP per capita leads to 0.02 percent increase … on the SSA's GDP per capita; (ii) oil and investment-goods exporters benefit more from China's growth; (iii) compared to …