"Over the past two decades Chinese engagement in Africa has attracted an increasing amount of global attention. In November 2006, representatives from 48 African countries, consisting of over 1,500 businesspeople and 41 heads of state, attended the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)...

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Who Will Feed China? -- Long March: History of Chinese Agricultural Engagement in Africa -- The Mountains are High and the Emperor is Far Away -- Zombie Investments -- Green Shoots -- The Future -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Database of Media...

Cover -- Will Africa Feed China? -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. China and Mozambique: Fiction and Fact -- 2. "Begging with a Golden Bowl": Food Security and Commercial Farms -- 3. Seeds of Change: Foreign Agribusiness...

Down but not out. China’s loan commitments (2000- 2019) in Africa now total US$ 153 billion. New Chinese loan commitments of US$ 7 billion dipped 30% in 2019 compared with 2018. Avoiding risk. Countries where China reprofiled, restructured, or refinanced existing debt between 2015 and 2019,...

On March 25, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, the heads of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank proposed that the leaders of the world's 20 largest economies, the Group of 20 (G20), provide breathing space by suspending the collection of debt service on...

THIS PAPER PROVIDES AN EVALUATION of China’s participation in the G20’s COVID-19 Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI). Through analysis of available data, more than 100 interviews, and fieldwork in Angola, Kenya, and Zambia, we argue, with some caveats, that the DSSI was a success....