This brief summarises and sets in context emerging findings from DEGRP project ‘Chinese FDI and structural transformation in Africa’.
Led by Deborah Brautigam, Director of Johns Hopkins’ China-Africa Research Initiative, the project is studying the potential for Chinese investment to enhance structural transformation in Africa, with a focus on knowledge transfer between Chinese and African firms. So far studies have been completed on Madagascar, Kenya, Zambia, and Malawi.