using 1,612 first-time outward FDI projects from China between 2000 and 2014. The largely supported results suggest that …

China is now the world's largest destination of FDI, despite assessments highlighting its institutional deficiencies …. But this FDI inflow corresponds closely to predicted FDI flows into China from a model that predicts FDI inflow based on … discrepancy is that, if government quality is measured by constraints on executive power, China receives somewhat more FDI than …

China's role in Africa, the chapter identifies pessimistic views that focus on the potential imperialist character of China …. Set within an institutions framework, it articulated a discourse on the motivation of Chinese cooperation with Africa. On … foreign investment in Africa. The paper amplifies the silent reality that other emerging economies such as India and Brazil …

relatively few linkages between MNEs and domestic firms in sub-Saharan Africa compared with Asia. However, when linkages are … present in sub-Saharan Africa, they raise the likelihood of direct knowledge/technology transfers from MNEs to domestic firms …

that much of the controversy about Chinese "aid" stems from a failure to distinguish between China’s Official Development … Assistance (ODA) and more commercially-oriented sources and types of state financing. Using a new database on China’s official … financing commitments to Africa from 2000-2013, we find the allocation of Chinese ODA to be driven primarily by foreign policy …