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Africa: The Chinese aid system
Carol Lancaster, Centre for Global Development
June 27, 2007

http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/13953/

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China has become a major source of foreign aid in Asia, Latin America and especially in Africa. Chinese aid has become a source of concern to Western aid agencies—will Chinese aid discourage needed economic and political reforms in African countries? Will it burden poor countries with debt—a burden from which many have only just escaped with the debt cancellation policies adopted by many aid agencies? This CGD Essay explores questions about Chinese aid— how large it is and how fast it is growing; how decisions are made on how much aid is provided each year; which countries receive it and how much they get; how the aid is managed within the Chinese government and how it is evaluated. The Chinese are clearly set to play a major role in aid-giving worldwide, and the aid-giving governments of Europe, North American and Japan should expand lines of communication and, to the extent possible, collaboration with the Chinese.

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