After several years of declining funding, the African end of the Belt and Road Initiative seems to be roaring back. The newest Griffith University/Green Development Finance Center data on the Belt and Road Initiative shows that engagement with Africa jumped by 395%, while a few big projects boosted engagement in Nigeria alone more than twelvefold.
These shifts indicate a window of opportunity for African electrification. 60% of Africans still ...
Author: Pippa Morgan
Dr. Pippa Morgan is a lecturer in political science at Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China. Pippa's research is motivated by a desire to understand the political economy of South-South economic engagement, with a focus on China's foreign economic relations, and Chinese aid, foreign direct investment, and contracting projects in Africa. More broadly, she is interested in combining quantitative and qualitative methods to understand how history influences contemporary political economy, and in how political and sociological factors impact prospects for economic development. She is also the assistant editor of two academic journals, the Chinese Political Science Review and the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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