Between Enclaves and Integration - Chinese and African Special Economic Zones in Sub-Saharan Africa

飞地与一体化——中非撒哈拉以南非洲经济特区

• 批准号: 423312057
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Peter Dannenberg
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsgruppe Anthropogeographie - Stadt und Regionalentwicklung
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/423312057?language=en
• 关键词: Between; Enclaves; Integration; Chinese; African

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are exceptions to a national institutional framework with specific laws and rules which have gained attention again with the rise and success of Chinese SEZs. As a result, in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and other regions of the Global South, governments are currently adopting the SEZ approach for their regional development plans. The goal is to concentrate public and private investment and develop a business-supportive infrastructural and institutional environment in their countries which are often marked by limited statehood, lacking capital, infrastructure deficits and weakly developed labour markets. To do this, these SSA governments aim to establish and host functioning SEZs which should be linked within global production networks and through that promote the broader socio-economic development of the surrounding region. Furthermore, since the mid-2000s, also Chinese developers are establishing SEZs in different African and other countries as a basis for investment. In this context, the question arises to what extent it is possible to transfer this approach to countries which significantly differ from China and are marked by the challenges outlined as well as a limited integration into global production networks. This proposed study aims to analyse 1. to what extent and 2. why and under which conditions differently implemented SEZs of African and Chinese developers in Sub-Saharan Africa contribute to regional development or develop into disintegrated enclaves. The study novelly combines conceptual considerations of policy transfer, enclaves and global production networks (GPN). Empirically, the study will analyse and compare SEZs of Chinese and domestic African developers and their embedding regions in two different SSA countries, Ethiopia and Zambia.

经济特区（SEZs）是国家制度框架的例外，具有特定的法律和规则，随着中国经济特区的兴起和成功，经济特区再次受到关注。因此，在撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）和全球南方的其他地区，政府目前正在采用经济特区的方式作为其区域发展计划。其目标是集中公共和私人投资，在这些国家发展支持商业的基础设施和体制环境，这些国家的特点往往是国家地位有限、缺乏资本、基础设施不足和劳动力市场不发达。为此，这些SSA政府的目标是建立和主办经济特区，这些经济特区应该与全球生产网络相联系，并通过这一网络促进周边地区更广泛的社会经济发展。此外，自2000年代中期以来，中国开发商也在非洲和其他国家建立经济特区，作为投资的基础。在这种情况下，出现了一个问题，即在多大程度上可能将这种方法转移到与中国有很大不同的国家，这些国家面临着上述挑战，并且与全球生产网络的整合有限。本研究旨在分析1。到什么程度？为什么以及在何种条件下，非洲和中国开发商在撒哈拉以南非洲实施的不同经济特区有助于区域发展，或者发展成解体的飞地。该研究新颖地结合了政策转移、飞地和全球生产网络（GPN）的概念考虑。在实证方面，本研究将分析和比较中国和非洲本土开发商的经济特区及其在两个不同的SSA国家（埃塞俄比亚和赞比亚）的嵌入地区。