Africa's silk road : China and India's new economic frontier /
"China and India's new-found interest in trade and investment with Africa-home, to 300 million of the globe's poorest people and the world's most formidable development challenge-presents a significant opportunity for growth and integration of the Sub-Saharan continent into the g...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
©2007.
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Colección: | World Bank e-Library.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Connecting two continents
- Historical context
- Scope and methodology of the study
- Structure and summary of the study
- Data sources
- Performance and patterns of African Asian trade and investment flows
- Introduction
- Patterns of merchandise trade flows between Africa and Asia
- Africa's pattern of merchandize trade with China and India
- Trade in services between Africa and Asia
- Foreign direct investment between Africa and Asia
- Disentangling factors behind African-Asian trade flows
- Conclusions and policy implications
- Challenges "at the border": Africa and Asia's trade and investment policies
- Introduction
- Domestic policy regimes influencing Africa-Asian trade and investment
- Bilateral and regional trade and investment policy regimes
- Conclusions and policy implications
- "Behind-the-border" constraints on African-Asian trade and investment flows
- Introduction
- Performance of firms behind the border
- Role of domestic competition in promoting international integration
- Role of Chinese and Indian imports and investment in linking competition and international integration
- Conclusions and policy recommendations
- "Between-the-border" factors in African-Asian trade and investment
- Introduction
- Remedies for imperfections in the market for information
- Trade facilitation in Africa-Asian commerce: logistics and finance
- Transfers of technology and skills
- Conclusions and policy recommendations
- Investment-trade linkages in African-Asian commerce: scale, integration and production network
- Introduction
- Determinants of linkages between trade and foreign direct investment
- Evidence on FDI-trade linkages of Chinese and Indian firms in Africa
- Meeting the challenge of network trade: what are Africa's export opportunities presented by Chinese and Indian foreign investment
- Conclusions and policy recommendations
- Summary of principal findings and policy recommendations
- Summary of principal findings
- Summary of priority policy recommendations.