Deborah Brautigam
Biographic Data
| ID | 163289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Brautigam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Brautigam |
| SIGNATURE | BRAUTIGAM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3282-0375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 406 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Chinese Collateralization in Comparative Perspective: ‘Belt and Suspenders’ on the Belt and Road
How do Chinese banks secure their loans to governments and public enterprises in the Global South? How do Chinese practices compare with those of other commercial and official creditors? We find that Chinese creditors rarely secure their overseas loans with real property, but primarily utilize liquid assets in escrow accounts that operate as payment mechanisms. Chinese practices represent a hybrid ‘belt and suspenders’ approach to lending to coun…
Socialisation, policy opportunity, and bureaucratic bargaining: Explaining China’s zig-zag engagement with multilateral debt restructuring
China and Zambia: Creating a Sovereign Debt Crisis
Does Zambia's exceptionally high level of Chinese loan commitments provide insights into China's financial statecraft? Some have argued that Chinese lending to Zambia reflects China's purposeful use of loans to build leverage and perhaps acquire strategic assets. This article uses new data on Chinese loans, lenders and contractors and process-tracing to argue instead that Zambia is an extreme case of coordination problems in Chinese lending. Amon…
A critical look at Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’: The rise of a meme
In 2017, a meme was born in a think tank in northern India: Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’. This meme quickly spread through the media, intelligence circles and Western governments. Within 12 months it generated nearly 2 million search results on Google in 0.52 seconds and was beginning to solidify into a deep historical truth. Stories can contain truths and falsehoods. Human emotions, including negativity bias, prime us to think in certain ways. …
Bartering Globalization: China's Commodity‐backed Finance in Africa and Latin America
In just over a decade, China has become a source of finance for emerging market and developing country governments. Recipient governments and the Chinese have been less than transparent with respect to the scale, terms and composition of this finance, engendering a great deal of speculation about its nature. This article provides preliminary estimates of Chinese finance to both Africa and Latin America since the turn of the century, with a specif…
Going Global in Groups”: Structural Transformation and China’s Special Economic Zones Overseas
Green Dreams: Myth and Reality in China’s Agricultural Investment in Africa
What role does China play in the recent rush for land acquisition in Africa? Conventional wisdom suggests a large role for the Chinese government and its firms. Ou r research suggests the opposite. Land acquisitions by Chinese companies have so far been quite limited, and focused on production for African consumption. We trace the evolution of strategy and incentives for Chinese agricultural engagement in Africa, and examine more closely several …
Shenzhen africain: Les zones économiques spéciales de la Chine en Afrique
Briefing Rumours and realities of Chinese agricultural engagement in Mozambique
Foreign interest in large land acquisitions in Africa began to hit the headlines in 2007 and 2008. China, a net food importer since 2004, was seen as one of the chief players in this rush for land. Mozambique has often been cited in support of the widespread conclusion that the Chinese government is directly seeking land in Africa for China's own food security.1 This briefing shows that the much-circulated picture of Chinese agricultural activiti…
Economic statecraft in China's new overseas special economic zones: Soft Power, Business or Resource Security
China's rapidly growing economic engagement with other developing countries has aroused intense debates, but these debates have often generated more heat than light. The Chinese government is clearly pushing its companies to move offshore in greater numbers, and state-owned firms figure prominently in many of the major investments abroad. Yet relatively little research exists on when, how and why the Chinese government intervenes in the overseas …
Aid ‘With Chinese Characteristics’: Chinese Foreign Aid and Development Finance Meet the OECD-DAC Aid Regime: Aid ‘with Chinese Characteristics’
China's official aid programme is non-transparent and poorly understood. The paper compares development finance from China and the Organization for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD) generally and through the examination of two cases of Chinese development cooperation in Africa. These cases illustrate a major argument of the paper: that the lion's share of China's officially supported finance is not actually official development assistance …
African Shenzhen: China's special economic zones in Africa
This article examines recent Chinese efforts to construct a series of official economic cooperation zones in Africa. These zones are a central platform in China's announced strategy of engagement in Africa as 'mutual benefit'. We analyse the background, motives and implementation of the zones, and argue that they form a unique, experimental model of development cooperation in Africa: market-based decisions and investment by Chinese companies are …
Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent
The dragon's gift: The real story of China in Africa
Difficult Partnerships: The World Bank, States, and NGOs
Since the early 1990s, World Bank officials in many countries have pressed their government borrowers to include nongovernmental organizations as development partners. What impact has this new partnership norm had in the bank's borrower countries, and why? This article investigates these questions through longitudinal analysis of three cases: Guatemala, Ecuador, and the Gambia. In their first iteration in the 1990s, these bank-sponsored efforts g…
Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975–2000
Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975–2000. By M. Anne Pitcher. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 320p. $60.00. Mozambique provides a sharp contrast with transition in much of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and even Asia. A Marxist movement (Frelimo) took power in 1975, pledging to construct a socialist state. Only 15 years later, a new constitution made no reference to socialism. By 1994, Mozambique was…
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Close encounters: Chinese business networks as industrial catalysts in Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal Article Close encounters: Chinese business networks as industrial catalysts in Sub‐Saharan Africa Get access Deborah Bräutigam Deborah Bräutigam Deborah Bräutigam is Associate Professor in the International Development Program, School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 102, Issue 408, 1 July 2003, Pages 447–467, htt…
Building Leviathan: Revenue, State Capacity, and Governance
These are the rights which make the essence of sovereignty
Business associations and growth coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Why are 'growth coalitions' involving business interest groups and governments so rare in Africa? How has democratisation affected the possibilities for growth coalitions? In three cases with varying degrees of democracy - Mauritius, Zambia, and Zimbabwe - we find that hypotheses about growth coalitions that place importance on the organisation of the business sector are generally borne out. Yet even when the business community is organised in an…
Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution
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Mauritius
Essay| May 01 1999 Mauritius: Rethinking the Miracle Deborah Bräutigam Deborah Bräutigam Deborah Bräutigam, an associate professor at American University’s School of International Service, is a visiting Fulbright researcher at the University of Mauritius. She is the author of Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution (New York: St. Martin’s, 1998). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Cur…
Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting the Green Revolution
Chinese Aid and African Development
Since 1957, more than 45 African countries have received aid from China, yet until recently little has been known about the effectiveness or impact of this assistance. Bräutigam provides the first aut
The State and Agriculture in West Africa
Rice shortages are a frequent problem in West Africa. During one of my visits to Sierra Leone, newspaper headlines screamed the panic and anger felt by local residents: ‘Rice ... Rice ... Rice ... Everywhere, Yet Not a Single Grain to See to Buy. There Will NEVER be an End to our Rice “WAHALA” in This Country!’ 1 In Sierra Leone and the rest of rice-dependent West Africa, rice supplies are a highly political issue, and thus rice projects like Chi…
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
A critical look at Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’: The rise of a meme
In 2017, a meme was born in a think tank in northern India: Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’. This meme quickly spread through the media, intelligence circles and Western governments. Within 12 months it generated nearly 2 million search results on Google in 0.52 seconds and was beginning to solidify into a deep historical truth. Stories can contain truths and falsehoods. Human emotions, including negativity bias, prime us to think in certain ways. …
Going Global in Groups”: Structural Transformation and China’s Special Economic Zones Overseas
African Shenzhen: China's special economic zones in Africa
This article examines recent Chinese efforts to construct a series of official economic cooperation zones in Africa. These zones are a central platform in China's announced strategy of engagement in Africa as 'mutual benefit'. We analyse the background, motives and implementation of the zones, and argue that they form a unique, experimental model of development cooperation in Africa: market-based decisions and investment by Chinese companies are …
Institutions, Economic Reform, and Democratic Consolidation in Mauritius
With more than fifty countries having made transitions to democracy between 1986 and 1996, dilemmas of democratic consolidation loom as next challenge for policymakers and scholars. Although political scientists have devoted increasing attention to democratic consolidation and economic reform, our understanding of their mutual influence remains relatively limited.' As one recent study noted, if success means resuming growth under democratic condi…
Close encounters: Chinese business networks as industrial catalysts in Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal Article Close encounters: Chinese business networks as industrial catalysts in Sub‐Saharan Africa Get access Deborah Bräutigam Deborah Bräutigam Deborah Bräutigam is Associate Professor in the International Development Program, School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 102, Issue 408, 1 July 2003, Pages 447–467, htt…
Green Dreams: Myth and Reality in China’s Agricultural Investment in Africa
What role does China play in the recent rush for land acquisition in Africa? Conventional wisdom suggests a large role for the Chinese government and its firms. Ou r research suggests the opposite. Land acquisitions by Chinese companies have so far been quite limited, and focused on production for African consumption. We trace the evolution of strategy and incentives for Chinese agricultural engagement in Africa, and examine more closely several …
Substituting for the state: Institutions and industrial development in eastern Nigeria
Economic statecraft in China's new overseas special economic zones: Soft Power, Business or Resource Security
China's rapidly growing economic engagement with other developing countries has aroused intense debates, but these debates have often generated more heat than light. The Chinese government is clearly pushing its companies to move offshore in greater numbers, and state-owned firms figure prominently in many of the major investments abroad. Yet relatively little research exists on when, how and why the Chinese government intervenes in the overseas …
Governance, economy, and foreign aid
Briefing Rumours and realities of Chinese agricultural engagement in Mozambique
Foreign interest in large land acquisitions in Africa began to hit the headlines in 2007 and 2008. China, a net food importer since 2004, was seen as one of the chief players in this rush for land. Mozambique has often been cited in support of the widespread conclusion that the Chinese government is directly seeking land in Africa for China's own food security.1 This briefing shows that the much-circulated picture of Chinese agricultural activiti…
Business associations and growth coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Why are 'growth coalitions' involving business interest groups and governments so rare in Africa? How has democratisation affected the possibilities for growth coalitions? In three cases with varying degrees of democracy - Mauritius, Zambia, and Zimbabwe - we find that hypotheses about growth coalitions that place importance on the organisation of the business sector are generally borne out. Yet even when the business community is organised in an…
Difficult Partnerships: The World Bank, States, and NGOs
Since the early 1990s, World Bank officials in many countries have pressed their government borrowers to include nongovernmental organizations as development partners. What impact has this new partnership norm had in the bank's borrower countries, and why? This article investigates these questions through longitudinal analysis of three cases: Guatemala, Ecuador, and the Gambia. In their first iteration in the 1990s, these bank-sponsored efforts g…
Socialisation, policy opportunity, and bureaucratic bargaining: Explaining China’s zig-zag engagement with multilateral debt restructuring
South-south technology transfer: The case of China's Kpatawee rice project in Liberia
Trade, Exchange Rate, and Agricultural Pricing Policies in Zambia
Zambia's agricultural potential is great. Less than a quarter of its available agricultural land is now being used for farming, and rainfall in most years is substantial. Nonetheless, the government of Zambia has shown little inclination to strengthen the country's agricultural sector by eliminating panterritorial pricing, reducing food-cost subsidies to urban consumers, or establishing incentives for agricultural exports. This report reviews the…
China and Zambia: Creating a Sovereign Debt Crisis
Does Zambia's exceptionally high level of Chinese loan commitments provide insights into China's financial statecraft? Some have argued that Chinese lending to Zambia reflects China's purposeful use of loans to build leverage and perhaps acquire strategic assets. This article uses new data on Chinese loans, lenders and contractors and process-tracing to argue instead that Zambia is an extreme case of coordination problems in Chinese lending. Amon…
Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Building Leviathan: Revenue, State Capacity, and Governance
These are the rights which make the essence of sovereignty
Foreign assistance and the export of ideas: Chinese development aid in The Gambia and Sierra Leone
What Can Africa Learn from Taiwan? Political Economy, Industrial Policy, and Adjustment
Arethere lessons Africa can learn from Taiwan and the other East Asian newly industrialising countries (NICs)? Evaluating the relevance of their experience is fraught with difficulties inherent in making comparisons across regions, during different periods of time, with different preconditions. Clearly, developments in Africa have to be based on local institutions, values, and resources. Yet Taiwan's successful combination of industrialisation an…
Shenzhen africain: Les zones économiques spéciales de la Chine en Afrique
Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting the Green Revolution
Trade, Exchange Rate, and Agricultural Pricing Policies in Zambia
Zambia's agricultural potential is great. Less than a quarter of its available agricultural land is now being used for farming, and rainfall in most years is substantial. Nonetheless, the government of Zambia has shown little inclination to strengthen the country's agricultural sector by eliminating panterritorial pricing, reducing food-cost subsidies to urban consumers, or establishing incentives for agricultural exports. This report reviews the…
Governance, economy, and foreign aid
South-south technology transfer: The case of China's Kpatawee rice project in Liberia
Foreign assistance and the export of ideas: Chinese development aid in The Gambia and Sierra Leone
What Can Africa Learn from Taiwan? Political Economy, Industrial Policy, and Adjustment
Arethere lessons Africa can learn from Taiwan and the other East Asian newly industrialising countries (NICs)? Evaluating the relevance of their experience is fraught with difficulties inherent in making comparisons across regions, during different periods of time, with different preconditions. Clearly, developments in Africa have to be based on local institutions, values, and resources. Yet Taiwan's successful combination of industrialisation an…
Dilemmas of Development Assistance: The What, Why, and Who of Foreign Aid
Substituting for the state: Institutions and industrial development in eastern Nigeria
Institutions, Economic Reform, and Democratic Consolidation in Mauritius
With more than fifty countries having made transitions to democracy between 1986 and 1996, dilemmas of democratic consolidation loom as next challenge for policymakers and scholars. Although political scientists have devoted increasing attention to democratic consolidation and economic reform, our understanding of their mutual influence remains relatively limited.' As one recent study noted, if success means resuming growth under democratic condi…
Chinese Aid and African Development
Since 1957, more than 45 African countries have received aid from China, yet until recently little has been known about the effectiveness or impact of this assistance. Bräutigam provides the first aut
The State and Agriculture in West Africa
Rice shortages are a frequent problem in West Africa. During one of my visits to Sierra Leone, newspaper headlines screamed the panic and anger felt by local residents: ‘Rice ... Rice ... Rice ... Everywhere, Yet Not a Single Grain to See to Buy. There Will NEVER be an End to our Rice “WAHALA” in This Country!’ 1 In Sierra Leone and the rest of rice-dependent West Africa, rice supplies are a highly political issue, and thus rice projects like Chi…
China’s Green Revolution: Technology in West Africa
From a distance, Makali, Kpatawee, and the other Chinese agrotechnical stations looked strikingly like patches of rural China transplanted into African rainforests and savannah: the intense green of paddy rice, flocks of long-necked, white cattle egrets, and rows of hard working farmers, faces hidden under Chinese straw hats. Propped against the wall of Sierra Leone’s Makali station headquarters, a peeling and faded blue sign welcomed visitors (i…
Economic Takeoff in Africa
Essay| May 01 1998 Economic Takeoff in Africa? Deborah Bräutigam Deborah Bräutigam Deborah Bräutigam is a professor in the School of International Service at American University. She is the author of Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution (London: Macmillan, forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1998) 97 (619): 204–208. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1998.97…
Mauritius
Essay| May 01 1999 Mauritius: Rethinking the Miracle Deborah Bräutigam Deborah Bräutigam Deborah Bräutigam, an associate professor at American University’s School of International Service, is a visiting Fulbright researcher at the University of Mauritius. She is the author of Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution (New York: St. Martin’s, 1998). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Cur…
Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting the Green Revolution
Building Leviathan: Revenue, State Capacity, and Governance
These are the rights which make the essence of sovereignty
Business associations and growth coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Why are 'growth coalitions' involving business interest groups and governments so rare in Africa? How has democratisation affected the possibilities for growth coalitions? In three cases with varying degrees of democracy - Mauritius, Zambia, and Zimbabwe - we find that hypotheses about growth coalitions that place importance on the organisation of the business sector are generally borne out. Yet even when the business community is organised in an…
Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Close encounters: Chinese business networks as industrial catalysts in Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal Article Close encounters: Chinese business networks as industrial catalysts in Sub‐Saharan Africa Get access Deborah Bräutigam Deborah Bräutigam Deborah Bräutigam is Associate Professor in the International Development Program, School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 102, Issue 408, 1 July 2003, Pages 447–467, htt…
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975–2000
Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975–2000. By M. Anne Pitcher. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 320p. $60.00. Mozambique provides a sharp contrast with transition in much of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and even Asia. A Marxist movement (Frelimo) took power in 1975, pledging to construct a socialist state. Only 15 years later, a new constitution made no reference to socialism. By 1994, Mozambique was…
Difficult Partnerships: The World Bank, States, and NGOs
Since the early 1990s, World Bank officials in many countries have pressed their government borrowers to include nongovernmental organizations as development partners. What impact has this new partnership norm had in the bank's borrower countries, and why? This article investigates these questions through longitudinal analysis of three cases: Guatemala, Ecuador, and the Gambia. In their first iteration in the 1990s, these bank-sponsored efforts g…
Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent
The dragon's gift: The real story of China in Africa
Aid ‘With Chinese Characteristics’: Chinese Foreign Aid and Development Finance Meet the OECD-DAC Aid Regime: Aid ‘with Chinese Characteristics’
China's official aid programme is non-transparent and poorly understood. The paper compares development finance from China and the Organization for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD) generally and through the examination of two cases of Chinese development cooperation in Africa. These cases illustrate a major argument of the paper: that the lion's share of China's officially supported finance is not actually official development assistance …
African Shenzhen: China's special economic zones in Africa
This article examines recent Chinese efforts to construct a series of official economic cooperation zones in Africa. These zones are a central platform in China's announced strategy of engagement in Africa as 'mutual benefit'. We analyse the background, motives and implementation of the zones, and argue that they form a unique, experimental model of development cooperation in Africa: market-based decisions and investment by Chinese companies are …
Political science (29 works) · Economics (26 works) · International Development and Aid (23 works) · China (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Development economics (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Geography (11 works)