Assessing Structural Transformation and the Potential Impacts of Belt and Road Initiative Projects in Africa

被引:2
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作者
Li, Weiping [1 ]
Lu, Saite [2 ]
机构
[1] City Univ Macau, Fac Finance, Taipa, Macao, Peoples R China
[2] Emmanuel Coll, Cambridge, England
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关键词
Structural transformation; Infrastructure development; BRI and Africa; COUNTRIES; GOVERNANCE; FRAMEWORK; GROWTH; WORLD;
D O I
10.1057/s41287-024-00624-1
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
Infrastructure development, central to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is crucial for facilitating structural transformation. However, numerous critics contend that the Initiative serves as a tool for China to engage in debt-trap diplomacy, which fails to deliver actual development in Africa. Therefore, assessing whether BRI projects will facilitate the necessary structural transformation in these countries requires meticulous analysis. Given the extended project cycle typical of infrastructure development, evaluating the overall socioeconomic impacts of the BRI is challenging. Nonetheless, these projects are likely to be implemented as part of the expansion of China's existing model for overseas infrastructure projects. This model is characterized by a reliance on concessional loans and credit facilities for financing, and state-owned enterprises as contractors. Contrary to the debt-trap diplomacy narrative, our findings, based on panel data and staggered difference-in-differences analysis, indicate that Chinese projects have positively impacted multiple aspects of Africa's structural transformation process. Le developpement des infrastructures, central a l'Initiative Route et Ceinture (en anglaise: "Belt and Road Initiative", BRI), est crucial pour faciliter la transformation structurelle. Cependant, de nombreux critiques soutiennent que l'Initiative sert d'outil pour la Chine pour s'engager dans une diplomatie du piege de la dette, qui ne parvient pas a apporter un veritable developpement en Afrique. Par consequent, evaluer si les projets BRI faciliteront la transformation structurelle necessaire dans ces pays necessite une analyse minutieuse. etant donne le cycle de projet prolonge typique du developpement des infrastructures, evaluer les impacts socioeconomiques globaux de la BRI est difficile. Neanmoins, ces projets sont susceptibles d'etre mis en oe uvre dans le cadre de l'expansion du modele existant de la Chine pour les projets d'infrastructure a l'etranger. Ce modele est caracterise par une dependance a l'egard des prets concessionnels et des facilites de credit pour le financement, et les entreprises d'etat en tant que contractants. Contrairement a la narrative de la diplomatie du piege de la dette, nos resultats, bases sur des donnees de panel et une analyse de differences en differences echelonnees, indiquent que les projets chinois ont eu un impact positif sur plusieurs aspects du processus de transformation structurelle de l'Afrique.
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