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Development Aid

“Izandla ziyagezana” - “Hands Wash Each Other”

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“ Ten African states individually received at least 3% of all Chinese official finance

projects to Africa from 2000-2011. Only two of these countries (Ghana and Liberia) are
situated in West Africa, while the rest are all either in Eastern or Southern Africa.

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In terms of the financial value of Chinese official finance, illustrates that coastal states

have received the lion's share of Chinese official finance. All of the largest recipients of
Chinese official finance from 2000-2011 are littoral states, save for Zimbabwe and
Ethiopia, and neither of these states are located far from main international maritime

transit “
"China's Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection." 462
Strange, Austin, Bradley Park, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, and Vijaya
Ramachandran.

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“ China says it spends more than half of its foreign aid in 51 African countries, and Aid

Data, anopen-source data centre, says Beijing sent more than $80bn in "pledged, initiated,

and completed projects" between 2000 and 2012. Most of that aid went to areas where
national leaders were born, indicating a strong political bias, AidData said.

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"As soon as [a region] becomes the birthplace of an African president this region gets
270% more development assistance (from China) than it would get if it were not the birth

region of the president," said Roland Hodler, professor of economics at the University of
St Gallen in Switzerland and co-author of a report, Aid on Demand: African Leaders and
the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance, published in conjunction with the database.

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But the study also noted that, contrary to popular belief, Chinese aid to Africa is not

strongly tied to countries that host Beijing's oil and mining operations. "We do not find a
strong pattern that Chinese aid only goes to regions where there's a lot of natural

resources. The picture that they only go after natural resources is not really confirmed by
our sub-national level analysis," Hodler said.”

"African Leaders 'Use China Aid for Patronage Politics.'" 463
Anderson, Mark.
The Guardian,(November 2014)
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“ A new Brookings Institution report shows that China was the single largest

infrastructure financier in 11 African countries between 2009 and 2012.