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| Title: | Close Encounters: Chinese Business Networks as Industrial Catalysts in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Author: | Bräutigam, Deborah A. |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
| Volume: | 102 |
| Issue: | 408 |
| Period: | July |
| Pages: | 447-467 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Nigeria Mauritius |
| Subjects: | Chinese industrial development entrepreneurs Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3518746 |
| Abstract: | Chinese business networks form an important (and well-studied) component of transnational industrial capitalism in East and South-east Asia. Yet almost no attention has been paid to the dynamics of the growing role of Chinese networks as catalysts for industrial development in sub-Saharan Africa. This article explores two contrasting cases, in Mauritius and in Nigeria. In a hostile or indifferent policy environment such as that of Nigeria, and in a locale where there were no resident overseas Chinese, the Asia-Africa linkages remained limited to information, input supply, consulting services, and technical assistance. In contrast, in the encouraging policy environment of Mauritius, which also had a sizeable overseas Chinese population, transnational Asian capitalists created strong connections with local capital (Asian and other), invested in joint ventures, and formed part of a successful export-oriented industrialization. These cases suggest that, as Asian business networks expand their global reach to sub-Saharan Africa, they can provide an important catalyst for local industrialization. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
