Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123649 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/14/037
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
We review about 100 papers on Sino-African relations published during the past 5 years for the most part, in order to put some structure on the existing strands. The literature is classified into dominant schools of thought, namely the: neocolonial or pessimistic; balance-development or optimistic and accommodation schools. After the classification, we reconcile the schools of thought in light of dominant themes and debates on development models, inter alia: (1) pessimists versus (vs) optimists; (2) preferences of rights in development models (economic vs political, national vs human & sovereign vs idiosyncratic); (3) the Washington Consensus vs the Beijing Model and; (4) an African Consensus in both the Washington Consensus and Beijing Model. Both the first and second schools have core values articulated by the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).
Subjects: 
Economic relations
China
Africa
JEL: 
F19
F21
O10
O19
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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