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Will China Relocate its Labor-Intensive Factories to Africa, Flying-Geese Style?

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  • Terutomo Ozawa

    (Economics, Colorado State University)

  • Christian Bellak

    (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)

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In its quest for oil and minerals, China has developed increasingly close economic relations with Africa through investment and aid. The World Bank recently called upon China to transplant labor-intensive factories onto the continent. This raises the question of whether such an industrial relocation will be done so as to jumpstart local economic development ¡ª as previously seen across East Asia and as described in the flying-geese (FG) paradigm of FDI. Judging from Asia's FG model, there are three crucial inducements for FDI in low-end manufacturing: (i) labor costs, (ii) exchange rates, and (iii) institutions.

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  • Terutomo Ozawa & Christian Bellak, 2010. "Will China Relocate its Labor-Intensive Factories to Africa, Flying-Geese Style?," Transnational Corporations Review, Ottawa United Learning Academy, vol. 2(3), pages 6-9, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:oul:tncr09:v:2:y:2010:i:3:p:6-9
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    1. Cornelia Staritz, 2011. "Making the Cut? Low-Income Countries and the Global Clothing Value Chain in a Post-Quota and Post-Crisis World," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 2547.
    2. Mo Bi & Zhenke Zhang, 2024. "Exploring the Path of Autonomous Development: the Development Dilemma and Coping Strategies of Sub-Saharan Africa in the Post-epidemic Era," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 15(1), pages 5043-5071, March.
    3. Liao, Hongwei & Chi, Yedi & Zhang, Jiarui, 2020. "Impact of international development aid on FDI along the Belt and Road," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 61(C).

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