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Chinese investment and small-scale commodity producers in Africa

author(s) Calabrese, L.. - Weng, X.
from UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
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regions
  • Eastern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
  • Eastern Asia
  • Asia
citation

Linda Calabrese and Xiaoxue Weng (2018) Chinese investment and small-scale commodity producers in Africa. DEGRP Research in Context

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Abstract

This Research in Context brief summarises and sets in context emerging findings from the project ‘Natural resources, rural poverty and China-Africa trade’. The project was funded by the Department for International Development - Economic and Social Research Council ‘Growth Research Programme’ (DEGRP) The project studied the nature and impacts of Chinese investment and trade in African natural resources, with a focus on the informal natural resource trade in Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The research was led by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in collaboration with the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) in Zambia, Agricultural Economics, Policy Research and Information Centre (AEPRIC) in Zimbabwe and COWI Tanzania

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