Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/103011 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/087
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
China's importance as a major donor outside the traditional Western donors has been increasing and this has helped to bridge the funding gaps in developing countries. At the same time, South-South financial assistance still comes with less conditionality making China's aid model different to Western donors. China dominates as a donor for Zimbabwe with substantial aid also going into Uganda and South Africa while South Africa is the darling of Western donors. Chinese funded projects are not confined to a specific sector and the scale of the projects varies across countries. While little is known about environmental aid from China, the magnitude of environmental aid from Western donors suggests there is a need to explore other areas to leverage the effect of environmental aid on the environment. Overall we find that aid disbursements are significantly lower than commitments for all three countries .
Subjects: 
Africa
aid
China
development finance
environmental aid
South-South co-operation
JEL: 
O19
Q56
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-808-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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