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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828266703321

Autore

Broadman Harry G

Titolo

Africa's silk road : China and India's new economic frontier / / Harry G. Broadman, with contributions from Gozde Isik ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2007

ISBN

1-280-62197-4

9786610621972

0-8213-6836-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xxvi, 391 pages : illustrations, maps ; ; 23 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

IsikGozde

Disciplina

382.096051

Soggetti

Africa Commerce China

Africa Commerce India

China Commerce Africa

India Commerce Africa

Africa Foreign economic relations China

Africa Foreign economic relations India

China Foreign economic relations Africa

India Foreign economic relations Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Overview; Figures; Tables; 1 Connecting Two Continents; 2 Performance and Patterns of African-Asian Trade and Investment Flows; Boxes; 3 Challenges "At the Border": Africa and Asia's Trade and Investment Policies; 4 "Behind-the-Border" Constraints on African-Asian Trade and Investment Flows; 5 "Between-the-Border" Factors in African-Asian Trade and Investment; 6 Investment-Trade Linkages in African-Asian Commerce: Scale, Integration, and Production Networks; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

China and India's new-found interest in trade and investment with Africa - home to 300 million of the globe's poorest people and the world's most formidable development challenge - presents a significant opportunity for growth and integration of the Sub-Saharan continent



into the global economy. Africa's Silk Road finds that China and India's South-South commerce with Africa is about far more than natural resources, opening the way for Africa to become a processor of commodities and a competitive supplier of goods and services to these countries - a major departure from its long established re