Mining and Economic Development : Did China's WTO Accession Affect African Local Economic Development?

Addison, Tony ; Boly, Amadou ; Mveyange, Anthony

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: mining;    commodity boom;    local development;    WTO;    China-Africa trade;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7906
RP-ID  :  WPS7906

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper investigates China'sinfluence on local economic development in 37 Africancountries between 1997 and 2007. The analysis compares theaverage changes in economic growth, migration, spatialinequality, and welfare for mineral-rich districts, pre- andpost-accession, to the corresponding changes in districtswithout any mineral endowment. Using this exogenousvariation, the paper shows that over 2002-07, miningactivities in response to the global commodity price boomincreased welfare as measured by spatial Sen Index but wereinsignificant for local economic growth, migration, andspatial inequality. The findings suggest that policy needsto do more to improve the local benefits of positiveexternal shocks (such as China's World TradeOrganization accession): it is not enough to assume, givenAfrica's high spatial inequality, that local economieswill automatically benefit from higher national growth.