Policy Briefings (Centre for Chinese Studies)

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    The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) - Political rationale and functioning
    (Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University, 2012-05) Grimm, Sven
    The 5th Forum for China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) will be held in Beijing in July 2012. The Forum, established for the first time in October 2000 in Beijing, constitutes a platform for African and Chi-nese policymakers to enhance China’s relations with African countries. The years since 2000 have seen growing political, economic and diplomatic interests in China-Africa relations, attracting global attention toward China’s engagement in Africa. This has led to increasing analysis, research and studies which seek to better understand Sino-African partnerships and cooperation. FOCAC has deep-ened China-Africa’s relations in various fields: politics, economics, investments, trade, south-south cooperation and aid; etc. For Chinese and African officials, FOCAC constitutes a multilateral platform to evaluate the achievements and discuss the perspectives of Sino-African relations. This paper ex-plores the political partnership element of FOCAC and looks into the workings of the institutions.
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    South-South Cooperation through investment – South African and Chinese support to development in Lesotho?
    (Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University, 2011-11) Van Der Lugt, Sanne
    The 4th High Level Forum of Aid Effectiveness in Busan/Korea focused on defining a new paradigm for aid and development and to build a new, all-inclusive, development partnership, sparked by increasing involvement of emerging economies. Emerging economies are promoting an alternative development cooperation model in which economic transactions such as trade and investment play an important role. South-South Cooperation (SSC) has been often compared with the development aid traditional donors have been offering to developing countries for many decades. The emphasis has been thereby on the equivalent to aid. This risks neglecting the crucial role of trade and investment in SSC. This Policy Briefing is based on a study on the role of investment in SSC and, more specifically, the role of state agencies of emerging economies in ensuring that the investments of their nationals contribute to social and economic development in the host country.
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    Transparency of Chinese aid – the published information on Chinese external financial flows
    (Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University, 2011-11) Grimm, Sven
    There are many myths and misconceptions about the level of information publically available on Chinese efforts and activities in the developing world. With the growing momentum around aid transparency since the Third High Level Forum on aid effectiveness (HLF-3) in Accra in 2008, and the preparations for HLF-4 being held in Busan in late November 2011, the Centre for Chinese Studies published a report on China’s aid information to provide a firmer footing for the discussions going forward. The purpose of this paper is to map and assess the levels of aid information made available across Chinese agencies that engage in various forms of international cooperation. The paper — summarised in this policy briefing — explores opportunities to improve publicly available information on Chinese foreign assistance and how to ensure comparability with other donors. The report was jointly published by the Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) at Stellenbosch University and Publish What You Fund, the global campaign for aid transparency. The full report can be found on the CCS website: www.sun.ac.za/ccs.