Deborah Brautigam - "The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa"
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- Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support for pariah regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and the ruthless exploitation of workers and natural resources in some of the poorest countries in the world sparked fierce debates. These debates, however, took place with very few hard facts. China's tradition of secrecy about its aid fueled rumors and speculation, making it difficult to gauge the risks and opportunities provided by China's growing embrace.
This well-timed book, by one of the world's leading experts, provides the first comprehensive account of China's aid and economic cooperation overseas. Deborah Brautigam tackles the myths and realities, explaining what the Chinese are doing, how they do it, how much aid they give, and how it all fits into their "going global" strategy. Drawing on three decades of experience in China and Africa, and hundreds of interviews in Africa, China, Europe and the U.S., Brautigam shines new light on a topic of great interest.
China has ended poverty for hundreds of millions of its own citizens. Will Chinese engagement benefit Africa? Using hard data and a series of vivid stories ranging across agriculture, industry, natural resources, and governance, Brautigam's fascinating book provides an answer. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with China's rise, and what it might mean for the challenge of ending poverty in Africa.
About the Speaker
Brautigam has been a recipient of a Fulbright Senior Regional Research Award for Africa, and a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Grant, and has also been awarded fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the German Marshall Fund. She is the author of Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution (St. Martin's Press, 1998) and Aid Dependence and Governance (Almquist & Wiksell, 2000), co-editor of Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and some two dozen articles and book chapters on foreign aid, the political economy of development, and the politics of economic policy.
THE DRAGON'S GIFT, THAT IS A MOST BEAUTIFUL STORY I EVER HEARD. THANKS TO U CHARMING N WISE PROFESSOR, DEBORAH BRAUTIGAM. I M A FILIPINO. MY SINCERE ADMIRATION N RESPECT.
Thank you Deborah. The truth is always refreshing.
Why Americans refuse to understand:
China's fleet traded in east cost of Africa early 15th century.Chinese brought back a Giraff with 400 feet long boat.
Most of western people were fooled by their media. Prof. Brautigam is one of the few who can maintain a rational mind.
Deborah:
She is American
Excellent talk, thank you. Must buy the book.
Ms. Brautigam dispells most western media‘s false reporting or editorials about Chinese engagements in Africa.
The story in Rashomon is from the short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa "In a Grove" in which Kurosawa mixed that and the frame story.
The African friends are eloquent enough
SYMBIOSIS
china is the best
The security narrative is a ridiculous exaggeration if not blatant falsehood. The "shaky plane" was no better or worse than any JetBlue planes in the US. Does it make you people feel strong and powerful putting Africa down quite so gratuitously? There's absolutely no comparison between the Japan/China arrangement and the China/Africa arrangement.
u.s.a never done before?