This book offers an explanation of the determinants of China and India's development cooperation in Africa. After collecting over one thousand development cooperation projects by China and India in Africa between 2000 and the present day with the assistance of AidData, it applies the method of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). The author posits that neither China nor India were solely motivated by one causal factor, whether strategic interests, economic interests, humanitarian interests, or the size of the diaspora. Indeed China and India are driven by multiple and conjunctural causal factors in providing more development cooperation to some countries than others on the African continent. The findings demonstrate the social complexity of the determinants of development cooperation. Indeed only when some of these respective causal factors are combined is it evident that China and India disbursed high levels of development cooperation to some African countries.

Autorentext

Philani Mthembu is Executive Director at the Institute for Global Dialogue, associated with the University of South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria, South Africa. He was previously based at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing, China. He co-founded the Berlin Forum on Global Politics.

Zusammenfassung

Explaining the determinants of China and India's development cooperation in Africa cannot be achieved in simple terms. After collecting over 1000 development cooperation projects by China and India in Africa using AidData, this book applies the method of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to understand the motives behind their development cooperation. Mthembu posits that neither China nor India were solely motivated by one causal factor, whether strategic, economic or humanitarian interests or the size of their diaspora in Africa. China and India are driven by multiple and conjunctural factors in providing more development cooperation to some countries than others on the African continent. Only when some of these respective causal factors are combined is it evident that both countries disbursed high levels of development cooperation to some African countries.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Changing Development Cooperation Landscape

Chapter 2. Conceptual Framework and the Importance of Consistent Definitions

Chapter 3. An Overview of China and India's Development Cooperation in Africa

Chapter 4. Theoretical Foundations of the Determinants of Development Cooperation

Chapter 5. Methodology and the Operationalisation of Variables

Causal Variable 1: Strategic importance of recipients

Causal Variable 2: Economic importance of recipients

Causal Variable 3: Humanitarian needs of recipients

Causal Variable 4: The size of the Chinese and Indian diaspora in Africa

Chapter 6. Explaining the Determinants of China and India's Development Cooperation in Africa

Chapter 7. Conclusion and Opportunities for Further Research

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