IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/caripb/302019.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Local Skill Development from China's Engagement in Africa: Comparative Evidence from the Construction Sector in Ghana

Author

Listed:
  • Meng, Qingwei
  • Nyantakyi, Eugene Bempong

Abstract

Over the past decade, Chinese enterprises have made significant progress in developing new business ventures in Africa, yet there is ongoing debate about whether these Chinese enterprises contribute to local skill development of their host countries. To inform this debate, Qingwei Meng and Eugene Bempong Nyantakyi use survey data from the construction sector in Ghana to examine the heterogeneity in skill transfer to local workers in Chinese enterprises, other foreign and local enterprises, and the challenges faced by firms in local skill development. The results show that both Chinese and other foreign owned enterprises contribute positively to local skill development through the provision of general and specific training. However, Chinese enterprises have a higher propensity to provide short-term general training to local workers than those of other foreign enterprises.

Suggested Citation

  • Meng, Qingwei & Nyantakyi, Eugene Bempong, 2019. "Local Skill Development from China's Engagement in Africa: Comparative Evidence from the Construction Sector in Ghana," SAIS-CARI Policy Briefs 30/2019, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), China Africa Research Initiative (CARI).
  • Handle: RePEc:zbw:caripb:302019
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/248209/1/sais-cari-pb30.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:302019. 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.