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    The management of Chinese foreign direct investment
    (Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University, 2011-03) Van Der Lugt, Sanne
    China is becoming an important source country for foreign direct investment (FDI) for many African countries, catching up fast with the historical main FDI source countries to Africa, such as the United States, the United Kingdom or France. One of the charms of China to African policy makers in the last years was a change of discourse, shifting from ‘challenges in development’ to ‘opportunities in doing business’ in Africa. Popular claims link the inflow of FDI almost automatically to economic development. This paper looks into framework conditions for investment, assuming that they matter strongly for investment to become beneficial for development. In order to better regulate, conditions in the host country have to be considered. Additionally, the investment promo-tion policies and institutions of the home country to investment – China in this case – need to be understood in order to engage with the right actors in the ‘sending’ country.
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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.