The next factory of the world how Chinese investment is reshaping Africa

China is now the biggest foreign player in Africa: largest trade partner, largest infrastructure financier, and fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment. Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding into Africa, investing in long-term assets, such as factories and heavy equipment. The fact that Chi...

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Autor principal: Sun, Irene Yuan (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press [2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: From the current factory of the world to the next factory of the world
  • Part 1. Realities: A human chain reaction
  • The life, death, and rebirth of factories
  • Cloth and clothing, steel rods and steel sheets
  • Taking a gamble
  • Part 2. Possibilities: On the line
  • Two steps forward, one step back
  • Good (enough) governance
  • "If we could do it, then so can this place"
  • Epilogue: Feeling the stones