Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/257102 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Economies [ISSN:] 2227-7099 [Volume:] 8 [Issue:] 3 [Article No.:] 53 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 1-20
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
While there is a consensus on the expanding importance of the China-Africa economic relationship, there is much more debate on how to portray the relationship. Thus, this study is aimed to examine the impacts of the China-Africa trade and Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) on the growth of African countries controlling the mediating role of institutional quality. The two-step system Generalized method of moments (GMM) model is applied using robust data for the period of 2003-2017. Drawing on complementary theoretical perspectives, this study took into account the conditional effect of China-Africa trade and Chinese FDI subject to the institutional quality of African countries and the interdependence of China-Africa trade and Chinese FDI to African countries. The benign impacts of the China-Africa trade and Chinese FDI on economic growth to African countries remain contingent upon appropriate policy action to improve the institutional quality of African countries and the synergies between the China-Africa trade and Chinese FDI to African countries.
Subjects: 
foreign direct investment (FDI)
trade
growth
institutional quality
two-step system GMM estimator
China
Africa
JEL: 
F35
F41
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Document Type: 
Article

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