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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Broadman, Harry G.
Otros Autores: Isik, Gözde
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2007.
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.