The next factory of the world (Record no. 10560)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781633692817
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 338.409SUN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sun, Irene Yuan.
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Title The next factory of the world
Remainder of title how Chinese investment is reshaping Africa
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Boston
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harvard Business Review Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 211p. : ill. ; 25 cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. China is now the biggest foreign player in Africa: largest trade partner, largest infrastructure financier, and fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment. Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding into Africa, investing in long-term assets, such as factories and heavy equipment. The fact that China sees Africa not for its poverty but for its potential wealth is a striking departure from the attitude of the West, in particular the United States. For fifty years the West has engaged in countless poverty-alleviation and development-aid programs in Africa, yet Africa still has the largest number of people living in extreme poverty of any region in the world. Considering Africa's difficult history of colonialism, one might suspect that the current story of China in Africa is merely a story about exploitation of resources. Author Irene Yuan Sun follows these entrepreneurs and finds, instead, that they are factory owners, building in Africa what they so recently learned to build in China--a global manufacturing powerhouse. This gives rise to a tantalizing possibility: that Africa can industrialize in the coming generation. With a manufacturing-led transformation, Africa would be following in the footsteps of the United States in the nineteenth century, Japan in the early twentieth, and the Asian Tigers in the late twentieth century. Many may consider this an old-fashioned way to develop, but it's the only one that's proven to raise living standards across entire societies for generations. And with every new Chinese factory boss setting up machinery and hiring African workers, that possibility becomes more real for Africa
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Investments, Chinese--Africa.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma Africa 01/17/2025   338.409SUN URD000727 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book