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Building Bridges - China's Growing Role as Infrastructure Financier for Sub-Saharan Africa (Paperback)
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In recent years, a number of emerging economies has begun to play a
growing role in the finance of infrastructure in Sub-Saharan
Africa. Their combined resource flows are now comparable in scale
to traditional Official Development Assistance from Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries or to
capital from private investors. These non-OECD financiers include
China, India, and the Gulf States, with China the largest player by
far. Despite the importance of Chinese infrastructure finance in
Africa, relatively little is known about the overall value and
destination of financing. The authors of 'Building Bridges'
quantify the magnitude of financial flows from China by collating
public information from a wide range of Chinese language sources.
From these data, they document the geographic distribution of
resources, the types of infrastructure involved, the size and
financing terms of the projects, and the methods through which
finance is being provided. The growth of China and other non-OECD
players as important financiers represents an encouraging trend for
Africa, given the magnitude of its infrastructure deficit. The
investments made by these nations are unprecedented both in scale
and in their focus on large-scale infrastructure projects. With new
actors and new approaches to financing, there is a learning process
ahead for borrowers and financiers, both new and old. 'Building
Bridges' summarizes the issues involved in this learning curve,
including developing the national capacity to negotiate complex and
innovative deals, and to enforce appropriate environmental and
social standards for project development.
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