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The Dragon's Gift
Deborah Brautigam
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Description for The Dragon's Gift
Paperback. This book analyzes China's aid program and its connection to the broad range of state-sponsored development activities the Chinese call "economic cooperation." It explains what the Chinese are doing in their developmental state-sponsored economic engagement in Africa, how they do it, and why they are doing it. Num Pages: 416 pages, 26 Figures, 1 Table. BIC Classification: GTF; JKSR; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 610.
Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support for pariah regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and the ruthless exploitation of workers and natural resources in some of the poorest countries in the world sparked fierce debates. These debates, however, took place with very few hard facts. China's tradition of secrecy about its aid fueled rumors and speculation, making it difficult ... Read more
Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support for pariah regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and the ruthless exploitation of workers and natural resources in some of the poorest countries in the world sparked fierce debates. These debates, however, took place with very few hard facts. China's tradition of secrecy about its aid fueled rumors and speculation, making it difficult ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199606290
SKU
V9780199606290
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About Deborah Brautigam
Deborah Brautigam is the author of Chinese Aid and African Development (1998), Aid Dependence and Governance (2000), and co-editor of Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries (2008). A long-time observer of Asia and Africa, she has lived in China, West Africa, and Southern Africa, and travelled extensively across both regions as a Fulbright researcher and consultant for the World Bank, ... Read more
Reviews for The Dragon's Gift
Deborah Brautigam has produced a superbly written and exquisitely researched book on a hotly debated topic ... The book is particularly strong on addressing the question of what the Chinese are doing in their new wave of aid and economic cooperation across Africa.
Jane Golley, The Economic Record
Jane Golley, The Economic Record