Growth of Chinese trade and investment flows in DR Congo – blessing or curse?

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Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge the role of my adviser, Professor Jayati Ghosh.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Note on contributor

Malancha Chakrabarty is a PhD research scholar at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her PhD thesis explores the impact of Chinese trade and investment on sub-Saharan African countries.

Notes

1. SITC is a classification of goods used to classify the exports and imports of a country. It is maintained by the United Nations.

2. Comptoirs are buying offices which are licensed to purchase process and export minerals from extractors.

3. Author's estimates from UNCOMTRADE data.

4. Author's estimates from UNCOMTRADE data.

5. According to Zafar (2007), more than 25,000 workers had been laid off in Lesotho and Swaziland.

6. Author's estimates from AidData (China.aiddata.org). Accessed June 23, 2014. http://china.aiddata.org/projects?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=&country_name%5B%5D=Congo%2C±Dem.±Rep.&scope_names%5B%5D=Official%20Finance

7. Sicomines will start production of copper from 2015. Accessed June 30, 2014. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-24/sicomines-to-begin-copper-output-in-2015-as-reserve-estimate-cut.html