Vol 3 (AAC) No 3 |
- AFRICA
- ASIA
- BRIEFING
Cambodia: peacekeeping and trade, Indonesia: the spirit of Bandung, Malaysia: agribusiness and oil, North Korea: vanity projects and arms sales, Pakistan: smuggling and fraud, Singapore: business junket, South Korea: good intentions, Thailand: expanding ties, Vietnam: oily interests
As one of the less developed Asian countries, Cambodia’s diplomats do
not travel as much or have budgets as large as their Indian and
South Korean counterparts. Nonetheless, the ...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 |
- INDIA
- AFRICA
A new team of Africa policymakers in Delhi is helping companies and banks to expand their investments on the continent
The second iteration of India's Congress Party-led federal
coalition has augmented its diplomatic, strategic and commercial
thrust into Africa in pursuit of hydrocarbons, mineral...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 |
- INDIA
- AFRICA
At the India-Africa Hydrocarbon Conference in Delhi on 8 December,
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna preached the benefits
of 'a close alignment on major international issue...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 |
- AFRICA
- ASIA
- BRIEFING
World Bank President Robert Zoellick's plan to bring
the Asian hyper-economies into the international development community
is now bearing fruit. On 3 December, Zoellick told Lon...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
China’s newly announced Africa policy is more of the same, but with a lack of African consensus that is all that could be hoped for
In comparison to the festivities of 2006, the 8-9 November Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC IV) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, was a much less hyped-up affair. It was not a hea...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
China proclaimed that it had accomplished its goals of doubling aid and meeting the eight goals established at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in Beijing in 2006, but th...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
The Sharm El-Sheik Action Plan sets out China-Africa cooperation goals for 2009 to 2012. Chinese officials emphasised that the 2006 Beijing Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was mo...
A China-Africa scholar weighs the evidence on the effect China has on Africa’s industrialisation
Conventional wisdom has it that the Chinese economic juggernaut is sweeping across the African continent, devastating already weak manufacturing sectors. Yet in many countries, sta...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 |
- INDIA
- AFRICA
India is launching its own mini-offensive in the electricity sector, following Chinese-style financing and contracting practices. On 29 October, New Delhi announced a new US$263 mi...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 |
- VIETNAM
- AFRICA
A US$2 million deal by a major Vietnamese rice exporter points to the corruption found on both side of the Africa-Asia commodities trade. Unlike Thailand, where the private sector ...
