Un análisis del impacto económico de las importaciones a China desde África

Résumé

Since its economic opening in 1978, China has been growing at rates of 10 percent per year on average. These economic reforms and population growth during this period have led the Asian country to the need to search resources beyond its borders. On the other hand, in the middle of the 20 century, the decolonization of Africa took place, and many of the countries were involved in civil wars that left the continent devastated. China has seen a good partner in Africa to obtain these resources that it needs so much to maintain its hegemony in the world and Africa has seen in the Asian country a good partner for its economic development. The relations between both regions have been marked by China's need of resources because of the limits to get them within its borders and the need of Africa of a trading partner. The aim of this thesis is to see how the evolution of the economy of the Asian country affects to the exports of the nine main exporting countries to China. These countries are Angola, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, DR Congo, Zambia and South Sudan, which represents about 85 percent of Africa's exports to China. These exports from Africa to China have been compared to exports from Africa to the rest of the world and to the rest of GDP components of African countries in order to be able to analyze all the variables that affect the economies of these nine countries. The general conclusions were that the changes in China's GDP cause greater variations in the imports from Africa than in the imports from the rest of the world, meaning the Africa's dependence on China's growth. In terms of Chinás exports, the result was that this GDP growth in the Asian country causes greater variations in exports to the rest of the world than in the exports to Africa, which means the limited influence of these exports on the continent's economy...