China’s economic involvement in Mozambique and prospects for development : an analysis of the processes and impacts of major recent investments
Date
2008-12
Authors
Alvarenga Rodrigues, Daniel Guilherme
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Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
Abstract
The great intensification of China’s engagement with Africa in the beginning of the 21st
century has brought about an equally vast body of literature concerning the general
motives and features of the engagement. The broad nature of such literature begs for
more focused and localised analysis that are able to complement and inform the ongoing
debate. This thesis aims to better understand how China’s policy towards Mozambique
affects the latter’s economic development. With this objective in mind each of the four
empirical chapters provides a fresh view over some of the most salient dimensions and
recent processes related to China’s involvement with Mozambique. The following is
analysed: China’s trade and investment with Mozambique; the Asian power’s economic
involvement in Mozambique’ agriculture sector; the participation of the China-Exim
Bank in the Mphanda Nkuwa dam negotiation process; and finally the participation of
Mozambique in the China-sponsored multilateral organisation of the Macau Forum. The
methodology used is primarily reliant on the analysis of secondary material
supplemented by a small number of informal interviews. The core secondary material
includes government investment agencies statistics, analysis of official documents,
policies and analysis of material such as NGO reports, studies and media reports. The
analysis corroborates the view that it mostly depends upon Mozambique’s governance
actors to make China’s engagement work towards its economic development and that
there is not a static set of monolithic neo-colonial tendencies overriding China’s
commitments towards the African country.
Description
Thesis (MA (Political Science. International Studies))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.
Keywords
International relations, China, Foreign policy, Theses -- Political science, Dissertations -- Political science