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Title: | A center-periphery perspective on Africa-China's emerging economic links |
Author: | Maswana, Jean-Claude |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | African and Asian Studies |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 67-88 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa China |
Subjects: | international economic relations dependence |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1163/156921009X413162 |
Abstract: | The discussion explores the validity of dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade and economic relations. Whereas the advocates of dependency theories assume that economic domination runs across north-south geoeconomic patterns, the present author concludes that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring in an emerging new global economic configuration marked by a technology gap. Consequently, even though synergies can be created by considering legitimate interests of each party, no matter how well-intentioned China is, Africa must still generate its own technological capacities and rid itself of its socioeconomic traps. Ultimately, there will be no long-run benefits unless each contributes to the emergence of a new economic configuration that is deeply rooted in common or joint interests. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract] |