China, Africa and the International Aid System
A Challenge to (the Norms Underpinning) the Neoliberal World Order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2308936 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shaquille Ifedayo Gilpin (0000-0002-3129-297X, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 277-297 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9096 • E-ISSN: 1745-2538 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00219096211063804 |
| OpenAlex | W4200486086 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 28 |
The China-Africa relationship has received increased interest over the past few decades as scholars critically examine the challenge that China, in its quest for a closer strategic partnership with Africa, poses to the norms governing the neoliberal world order (NLWO). One crucial aspect of this is international aid, and how Chinese aid to Africa differs from Western aid. This paper argues that Chinese aid reduces the power of traditional aid donors to shape the development route of African countries. This new development finance ultimately breaks the monopoly of Western aid to decide how poor countries in the global 'South' develop. In doing so, the Sino-African aid relationship is challenging the current world order as it offers African states the possibility to decouple (or delink) themselves from the global economy. By challenging assumed neoliberal economic development fundamentals, this relationship, if harnessed correctly by African leaders, can pose longer-term ideological questions around the very set of ideas that underpin development itself, while enabling African states the policy space needed to pursue more sustainable development from an Afro-centric perspective. It is this possibility to delink, due to changing ideological fundamentals concerning economic development, that is the challenge China and Africa pose to the NLWO
China · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · General partnership · Ideology · Neoliberalism (international relations · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sustainable development · Underpinning · Washington Consensus · Economic Growth and Development · International Development and Aid · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Audiences, contexts, and cues
Reshaping Power Relations Within the International Aid Regime
Aid administration and sustainable development in post-Covid-19 era in Africa
Assessing Western Discourse on ‘Chinese Neocolonialism’ in the Global South
China's Poverty Reduction Diplomacy in Africa
Decolonising aid architecture
Do natural resources determine Chinese education aid? A subnational analysis of Chinese aid to Africa
Reclaiming the politics of South-South cooperation
Financing African urban infrastructure
Building a shared future between China and Africa
China's State-Business Relationship with Nigeria
Rage against the Port City
Foreign Aid and Socioeconomic Development
Uganda
South–South strategic bases for Africa to engage China
The cartel of good intentions
Null
Transnational Connections
Promise of Development
China's Foreign Assistance and Its Implications for the International Aid Architecture
Foreign Aid and the Status Quo
Does foreign aid reduce poverty? A dynamic panel data analysis for sub-Saharan African countries
Authoritarian neoliberalism and capitalist transformation in Africa
Why the Liberal World Order Will Survive
East Asia has delinked – can Ethiopia delink too
The myth of ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ and realities of Chinese development finance
The international implications of the Chinese model of development in the Global South
Foreign aid, debt relief and Africa's development
Dependency Theory - A Conceptual Lens to Understand China's Presence in Africa
In a fix
Whose aid? Whose influence? China, emerging donors and the silent revolution in development assistance
China's engagement in Africa
China's Foreign Aid Training
The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System
| Citations per year | 3.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |