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The Belt and Road Initiative: What is in it for China?

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China's outbound investment exceeded inbound investment for the first time in 2015. In years leading up this transition, a maturing demographic transition alongside slowing internal migration and diminishing returns to physical capital investment, all had a role in China's diminished competitiveness in low†wage manufactured exports and the fading of the related growth model. In that context, the 2013 launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) took place in two stages in two developing countries, Kazakhstan and Indonesia. These launch choices, and the BRI in general are herein elaborated in terms of economic history, geography, and demography. The BRI in turn is considered to be aiming to foster the ongoing development of China, and in doing so also seeks to instigate new era development opportunity for other developing countries. One facilitation channel for the latter is China's concept of “patient capital,†essentially concessional capital, or foreign aid. For China that offers a means via which to internationalise the financial sector and also the Renminbi. Lessons from China's own use of foreign aid and economic development hence serve as an important reference for ongoing scoping of the shape and trajectory of the BRI. To that end, this article sheds light on what is in the BRI for China.

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  • Lauren A. Johnston, 2019. "The Belt and Road Initiative: What is in it for China?," Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies 201903, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
    • Handle: RePEc:een:appswp:201903
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    4. Arie Y. Lewin & Michael A. Witt, 2022. "China’s Belt and Road Initiative and international business: The overlooked centrality of politics," Journal of International Business Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 5(2), pages 266-275, June.
    5. Lingduo Jiang & Guofeng Zhang & Hang Zhang, 2023. "The role of the Belt and Road Initiative: New opportunity for Chinese exporters?," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(6), pages 1609-1647, June.
    6. Elnur Mekhdiev & Irina Pashkovskaya & Elena Takmakova & Olga Smirnova & Khadiya Sadykova & Svetlana Poltorykhina, 2019. "Conjugation of the Belt and Road Initiative and Eurasian Economic Union: Problems and Development Prospects," Economies, MDPI, vol. 7(4), pages 1-15, December.

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    Keywords

    Belt and Road Initiative; China; development; economic demography; RMB internationalisation;
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