China's growth and the agricultural exports of Southern Africa

The implications of China's growth for the development prospects of Sub-Saharan Africa have been the subject of recent attention. Interest in this topic is motivated by the increasing presence of China in the region and the growing bilateral trade links between China and Africa. Against this backgro...

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Autores principales: Villoria, Nelson, Hertel, Thomas W., Nin-Pratt, Alejandro
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161833
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Nin-Pratt, Alejandro
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description The implications of China's growth for the development prospects of Sub-Saharan Africa have been the subject of recent attention. Interest in this topic is motivated by the increasing presence of China in the region and the growing bilateral trade links between China and Africa. Against this background, we herein explore whether China's growth has stimulated agricultural exports in selected countries of Southern Africa, namely, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, the Southern African Custom Union (SACU), and Zambia. We find little complementarity between China's agricultural import demand and the export supply of the focus countries. We also explore whether China affects Southern African agricultural exports through the increases in world agricultural prices associated with China's growing demand for food. We find that although China has moderately increased agricultural prices (in an aggregated sense), Southern African exports do not seem to benefit from these price increases.
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spelling CGSpace1618332025-11-06T06:05:39Z China's growth and the agricultural exports of Southern Africa Villoria, Nelson Hertel, Thomas W. Nin-Pratt, Alejandro agriculture models trade development policies The implications of China's growth for the development prospects of Sub-Saharan Africa have been the subject of recent attention. Interest in this topic is motivated by the increasing presence of China in the region and the growing bilateral trade links between China and Africa. Against this background, we herein explore whether China's growth has stimulated agricultural exports in selected countries of Southern Africa, namely, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, the Southern African Custom Union (SACU), and Zambia. We find little complementarity between China's agricultural import demand and the export supply of the focus countries. We also explore whether China affects Southern African agricultural exports through the increases in world agricultural prices associated with China's growing demand for food. We find that although China has moderately increased agricultural prices (in an aggregated sense), Southern African exports do not seem to benefit from these price increases. 2009 2024-11-21T09:58:39Z 2024-11-21T09:58:39Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161833 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Villoria, Nelson; Hertel, Thomas W.; Nin-Pratt, Alejandro. 2009. China's growth and the agricultural exports of Southern Africa. IFPRI Discussion Paper 891. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161833
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models
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development policies
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Hertel, Thomas W.
Nin-Pratt, Alejandro
China's growth and the agricultural exports of Southern Africa
title China's growth and the agricultural exports of Southern Africa
title_full China's growth and the agricultural exports of Southern Africa
title_fullStr China's growth and the agricultural exports of Southern Africa
title_full_unstemmed China's growth and the agricultural exports of Southern Africa
title_short China's growth and the agricultural exports of Southern Africa
title_sort china s growth and the agricultural exports of southern africa
topic agriculture
models
trade
development policies
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161833
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