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Competition and Development: The Power of Competitive Markets  new

This website draws on IDRC-funded research to demonstrate the importance of true and fair competition to sustainable development and an effective marketplace.

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-119682-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

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Angola and China: A Pragmatic Partnership

With the war now over, rapid post-conflict reconstruction has become the Angolan government's priority. The People's Republic of China (China) has in particular played an important role in assisting these efforts. Chinese financial and technical assistance has kick-started over 100 projects in the areas of energy, water, health,education, telecommunications, fisheries, and public works.This paper takes a fresh look at the relationship between Angola and China (Center for Strategic and International Studies, March 2008)

http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080306_angolachina.pdf

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Prudent versus Imprudent Lending to Africa: From Debt Relief to Emerging Lenders [pdf]

This Working Paper evaluates the claim that China is "free riding" on Western debt relief efforts and find it to be unfounded. In order to encourage China and other emerging lenders and donors to co-operate, the paper suggests a broadening of the Debt Sustainability Framework concept of debt sustainability to include both the growth effects of new lending that contributes to better infrastructure, and the improvements in terms of trade and export performance resulting from China's demand (Helmut Reisen and Sokhna Ndoye, OECD, February 2008).

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/62/12/40152567.pdf

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Q&A: 'China Is No Villain in Africa'

Instead of indulging in China bashing, major western industrial nations should listen to China and its partners in Africa and elsewhere, says Eckhard Deutscher, the new head of the influential Development Assistance Committee (DAC) (IPS 17 March 2008).

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41617

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The Rise of the East: what does it mean for Development Studies?

The paper starts by highlighting the rise of the East, focusing in particular on the growth and transformation of China. It then distinguishes between four broad strands of Development Studies and shows how each strand is affected by the rise of the East. It concludes by discussing the need for a new vocabulary to make sense of the new world and - closely related to this - the need to break through a psychological barrier: analysing how the former 'periphery' is driving change in the 'centre'.

http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/global/pdfs/hs_ids40-2.pdf

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