Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development?

Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development?

This paper investigates China's influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007. The analysis compares the average changes in economic growth, migration, spatial inequality, and welfare for mineral-rich di...

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Main Authors: Addison, Tony, Boly, Amadou, Mveyange, Anthony
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
mining
commodity boom
local development
WTO
China-Africa trade
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/414931480967981511/Mining-and-economic-development-did-Chinas-WTO-accession-affect-African-local-economic-development
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spelling okr-10986-258052021-06-08T14:42:46Z Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development? Addison, Tony Boly, Amadou Mveyange, Anthony mining commodity boom local development WTO China-Africa trade This paper investigates China's influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007. The analysis compares the average changes in economic growth, migration, spatial inequality, and welfare for mineral-rich districts, pre- and post-accession, to the corresponding changes in districts without any mineral endowment. Using this exogenous variation, the paper shows that over 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price boom increased welfare as measured by spatial Sen Index but were insignificant for local economic growth, migration, and spatial inequality. The findings suggest that policy needs to do more to improve the local benefits of positive external shocks (such as China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local economies will automatically benefit from higher national growth. 2017-01-04T21:37:31Z 2017-01-04T21:37:31Z 2016-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/414931480967981511/Mining-and-economic-development-did-Chinas-WTO-accession-affect-African-local-economic-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25805 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7906 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa East Asia and Pacific Sub-Saharan Africa China
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topic mining
commodity boom
local development
WTO
China-Africa trade
spellingShingle mining
commodity boom
local development
WTO
China-Africa trade
Addison, Tony
Boly, Amadou
Mveyange, Anthony
Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development?
geographic_facet Africa
East Asia and Pacific
Sub-Saharan Africa
China
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7906
description This paper investigates China's influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007. The analysis compares the average changes in economic growth, migration, spatial inequality, and welfare for mineral-rich districts, pre- and post-accession, to the corresponding changes in districts without any mineral endowment. Using this exogenous variation, the paper shows that over 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price boom increased welfare as measured by spatial Sen Index but were insignificant for local economic growth, migration, and spatial inequality. The findings suggest that policy needs to do more to improve the local benefits of positive external shocks (such as China's World Trade Organization accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local economies will automatically benefit from higher national growth.
format Working Paper
author Addison, Tony
Boly, Amadou
Mveyange, Anthony
author_facet Addison, Tony
Boly, Amadou
Mveyange, Anthony
author_sort Addison, Tony
title Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development?
title_short Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development?
title_full Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development?
title_fullStr Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development?
title_full_unstemmed Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development?
title_sort mining and economic development : did china's wto accession affect african local economic development?
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/414931480967981511/Mining-and-economic-development-did-Chinas-WTO-accession-affect-African-local-economic-development
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25805
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