IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-981-15-9573-8_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Rise of China: Reforms, Growth and Modernisation: Overview of China’s Development Narrative

In: China’s Trade and Investment in Africa

Author

Listed:
  • Alpha Furbell Lisimba

Abstract

China’s emergence as economic powerhouse is often seen as forerunner of a new era in world affairs with an obvious impact on global economic activities. The rise of China’s influence in Africa raises question of what impact it has upon patterns of development, democratic transformation across the continent. There is mounting concern in whether China represents role model for development or acts as preservative for authoritarian rule in Africa. The chapter evolutes the narrative of China’s economic growth and its foreign policy in approaching Africa. In this context, the relationship between China and states in Africa appears to reveal the practice of ‘Beijing Consensus’ as new model replacing ‘Washington consensus’: China needs natural resources and new markets for its products, and Africa needs alternative financial sources, creditlines and loans to develop its infrastructure; hoping to develop like the rest of world. The chapter argues that the failure of ‘neoliberal polices’ has left vacuum which then contributed to the rise of China in Africa, presuming an important role as a new player in the continent.

Suggested Citation

  • Alpha Furbell Lisimba, 2020. "The Rise of China: Reforms, Growth and Modernisation: Overview of China’s Development Narrative," Springer Books, in: China’s Trade and Investment in Africa, chapter 0, pages 49-79, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-15-9573-8_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-9573-8_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-15-9573-8_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.