Essays about: "Chinese FDI in Africa"

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  1. 16. Does FDI affect GDP per-capita growth in sub-Saharan Africa?

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

    Author : Håkan Norling; Tomi Joutsen; [2014]
    Keywords : Corruption; Economic Growth; GDP per-capita; Growth; FDI; Foreign Direct Investment; Sub-Saharan Africa;

    Abstract : Economic growth is a goal for countries around the world in order to improve living standards, and the effect of foreign direct investments (FDI) has long been studied. There are today many theories and empirical studies regarding FDI. Many questions being studied but finding a straight answer to these have showed to be anything but easy. READ MORE

  3. 17. Place based and place bound realities: How a Chinese firm embeds in Tanzania

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Tanny Men; [2011]
    Keywords : Sino-Tanzanian cooperation; Chinese investment; Foreign Direct Investment FDI ; Embeddedness; Global Production Network; Chinese culture; Cross-cultural management; Labour relations; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The paper aims to contribute to understanding the implications of the Chinese firm within embeddedness concepts of the global production network (GPN) framework. The study demonstrates the need to fill a gap in the knowledge about Chinese investment in Africa by specifically focusing on intra-firm work dynamics and the cultural and relational constructs within the Chinese firms operating in Tanzania. READ MORE

  4. 18. Chinese Construction Investments in Africa: The Case of Zambia

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : David Lindberg; [2009]
    Keywords : China; Africa; FDI; Construction; Zambia;

    Abstract : This thesis contributes to the empirically and theoretically based understanding of Chinese investments in Africa through a case study of the Zambian construction industry. The thesis finds that a large part of Chinese construction firms in Zambia entered in three “waves” between 1987 and 2000. READ MORE