The growing relationship between China and Sub-Saharan Africa : macroeconomic, trade, investment, and aid links
The growing relationship between China and Sub-Saharan Africa : macroeconomic, trade, investment, and aid links
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DOI：
10.1093/wbro/lkm001
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发表时间：
2007-04
影响因子：
8.1
通讯作者：
A. Zafar
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作者：
A. Zafar
中国在过去20年的经济崛起在世界经济中产生了涟漪反应。为了满足工业化对自然资源的需求，它把目光投向了撒哈拉以南的非洲。2006年，中非贸易总额超过500亿美元，中国公司从安哥拉和苏丹进口石油，从中非进口木材，从赞比亚进口铜。来自中国的需求推动了价格上涨，特别是非洲的石油和金属价格，并推动了撒哈拉以南非洲地区的真实的国内生产总值（GDP）。中国对基础设施的援助和投资正在为非洲大陆带来急需的资金。然而，与此同时，中国对石油的强劲需求正在导致许多撒哈拉以南非洲石油进口国的进口费用增加，中国出口的低成本纺织品虽然使非洲消费者受益，但有可能取代当地生产。中国对非洲的良好治理和宏观经济管理构成挑战，因为大宗商品繁荣可能带来荷兰病影响。中国既为非洲提供了一个减少其在全球经济中边缘化的机会，也为非洲有效利用资源流入促进国内减贫经济发展提出了挑战。
Chinas economic ascendance over the past two decades has generated ripple effects in the world economy. Its search for natural resources to satisfy the demands of industrialization has led it to Sub-Saharan Africa. Trade between China and Africa in 2006 totaled more than $50 billion, with Chinese companies importing oil from Angola and Sudan, timber from Central Africa, and copper from Zambia. Demand from China has contributed to an upward swing in prices, particularly for oil and metals from Africa, and has given a boost to real gross domestic product (GDP) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chinese aid and investment in infrastructure are bringing desperately needed capital to the continent. At the same time, however, strong Chinese demand for oil is contributing to an increase in the import bill for many oil-importing Sub- Saharan African countries, and its exports of low-cost textiles, while benefiting African consumers, is threatening to displace local production. China poses a challenge to good governance and macroeconomic management in Africa because of the potential Dutch disease implications of commodity booms. China presents both an opportunity for Africa to reduce its marginalization from the global economy and a challenge for it to effectively harness the influx of resources to promote poverty-reducing economic development at home.