The Impact of China’s Investment in Africa

LI YONG

2007-02

Figure 1 China’s Investment in Africa (1980-2005)

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Figure 2 The Effect of China’s Investment in Africa

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Figure 3 The Effect of China’s Investment in Algeria

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Figure 4 The Effect of China’s Investment in Nigeria

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Technology-intensive goodBotswana          

2000 0.09 6.02 3.22 0.71 0.51

2001 0.12 6.26 3.41 0.51 0.25

Lesotho          

2001 4.82 0.15 2.8 0. 32 0.09

Namibia          

2000 1.71 4.17 2.45 0.11 0.17

2001 2.33 5.11 3.19 0.38 0.51

South Africa

         

1999 2.01 4.32 2.65 0.32 0.18

2000 1.28 4.23 2.83 0.92 0. 67

2001 1.65 4.34 3.79 1.35 0. 92

2002 2. 36 4.39 3.55 1.93 1.13

Swaziland          

2000 1.71 3.92 6.35 0.27 0.05

2001 2.04 3.84 6.72 0.82 0.09

2002 2.20 4.28 7.23 1.16 0.12

China          

1999 1.08 1.20 6.68 3.29 0.50

2000 1.17 0.88 5.24 3.32 0.57

2001 0.95 0.86 3.74 3.02 0.82

2002 1.28 0.84 3.32 3.56 1.17

Table 1 China and SACU : indices of revealed comparative advantage

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