IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/caripb/182017.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The United States and China in Africa: What does the data say?

Author

Listed:
  • Eom, Janet
  • Hwang, Jyhjong
  • Atkins, Lucas
  • Chen, Yunnan
  • Zhou, Siqi

Abstract

This brief examines how Chinese engagement compares to US engagement in African countries. How do oil exports influence Chinese and US trade relations with Africa? Why do Chinese and US firms favor investment in different African industries? What are the main sectors to which China and the United States provide loans in Africa? To answer such questions, this policy brief analyzes CARI's data on Chinese and US trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), and loans to Africa over the past 15 years. The authors find that Chinese engagement emphasizes Africa's infrastructure needs, key countries are consistently top destinations for different types of economic activities, and fluctuating commodity prices are important to both the United States and China in Africa.

Suggested Citation

  • Eom, Janet & Hwang, Jyhjong & Atkins, Lucas & Chen, Yunnan & Zhou, Siqi, 2017. "The United States and China in Africa: What does the data say?," SAIS-CARI Policy Briefs 18/2017, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), China Africa Research Initiative (CARI).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:caripb:182017
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/248197/1/sais-cari-pb18.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    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:zbw:caripb:182017. 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: ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.sais-cari.org/ .

    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.