China’s economic involvement in Mozambique and prospects for development : an analysis of the processes and impacts of major recent investments

dc.contributor.advisorCornelissen, Scarletten_ZA
dc.contributor.authorAlvarenga Rodrigues, Daniel Guilhermeen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Political Science.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2008-11-10T08:36:52Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T08:28:31Z
dc.date.available2008-11-10T08:36:52Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T08:28:31Z
dc.date.issued2008-12
dc.descriptionThesis (MA (Political Science. International Studies))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.
dc.description.abstractThe great intensification of China’s engagement with Africa in the beginning of the 21st century has brought about an equally vast body of literature concerning the general motives and features of the engagement. The broad nature of such literature begs for more focused and localised analysis that are able to complement and inform the ongoing debate. This thesis aims to better understand how China’s policy towards Mozambique affects the latter’s economic development. With this objective in mind each of the four empirical chapters provides a fresh view over some of the most salient dimensions and recent processes related to China’s involvement with Mozambique. The following is analysed: China’s trade and investment with Mozambique; the Asian power’s economic involvement in Mozambique’ agriculture sector; the participation of the China-Exim Bank in the Mphanda Nkuwa dam negotiation process; and finally the participation of Mozambique in the China-sponsored multilateral organisation of the Macau Forum. The methodology used is primarily reliant on the analysis of secondary material supplemented by a small number of informal interviews. The core secondary material includes government investment agencies statistics, analysis of official documents, policies and analysis of material such as NGO reports, studies and media reports. The analysis corroborates the view that it mostly depends upon Mozambique’s governance actors to make China’s engagement work towards its economic development and that there is not a static set of monolithic neo-colonial tendencies overriding China’s commitments towards the African country.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1608
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch University
dc.subjectInternational relationsen_ZA
dc.subjectChina, Foreign policyen_ZA
dc.subjectTheses -- Political scienceen_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- Political scienceen_ZA
dc.subject.geogChina -- Foreign economic relations -- Mozambiqueen_ZA
dc.subject.geogMozambique -- History -- 1994-en_ZA
dc.subject.geogMozambique -- Relations -- Chinaen_ZA
dc.subject.geogMozambique -- Economic conditions -- 1975-en_ZA
dc.subject.otherPolitical Scienceen_ZA
dc.titleChina’s economic involvement in Mozambique and prospects for development : an analysis of the processes and impacts of major recent investmentsen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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