Production Transfer, Dependence Theory And Flying Geese: Africa In Chinese Relocation

Authors

  • Bráulio Castillo Universidade Estadual da Paraíba
  • Andrea Pacheco Pacifico Universidade Estadual da Paraíba
  • Ana Paula Maielo Silva Universidade Estadual da Paraíba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/cg.v9i2.74480

Abstract

This article analyzes the recent Chinese industrial relocation movement towards Africa. This premise has at least two different approaches regarding the effectiveness in producing economic development. Flying Geese Pattern of Development Theory maintains that the productive transfer is catalyst of economic development. “Dependency Theory”, on the other hand, denounces that industrialization guided by industrial transfer from the center to the periphery is one of the causes of the perpetuation of underdevelopment. In this sense, this article analyzes to what extent any of these theories have the capacity to explain Africa's place in Chinese industrial transfer, using a qualitative approach to infer in which material reality African countries are currently in terms of productive transfer. The analysis model proposed to build inferences contains two questions, each with two hypotheses, among which, one corresponds to the path of underdevelopment, according to the Dependency Theory, and the other to the process of development from the Flying Geese Pattern model. The results indicate that the analyzed countries respond positively to a hypothesis that leads to dependence, while confirming that another one meets the conditions of development of the Flying Geese Pattern. The work concludes that the countries wich hosted the Chinese SEZs are at a crossroads between taking off the economy and stagnating underdevelopment. This inference is supported by the findings that shows while these countries return production to export, on the other hand they do not require the participation of national capital to absorb technology.

Keywords: China-Africa relations; Production transfer; Flying Geese Pattern; Dependency Theory.

Author Biographies

Bráulio Castillo, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba

Mestrando em Relações Internacionais pela Universidade Estadual da Paraíba. Bacharel em Direito pela Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte

Andrea Pacheco Pacifico, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba

Professora da graduação e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, onde também é coordenadora adjunta do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais. Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa nível 2 do CNPq (desde 2019). Pesquisadora colaboradora plena no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Comparados sobre as Américas da Universidade de Brasília (desde 2019). Foi pesquisadora visitante no Refugee Studies Centre da Universidade de Oxford (2010/2011); Pós-doutora em Direito Internacional dos Refugiados pela Universidade de York, Canadá (2009/2010); doutora (PhD), com distinção, em Ciências Sociais pela PUC/São Paulo (2008), com período sanduiche no Center for Refugee Studies da Universidade de York, Canadá; mestre (LLM/MA) em Direito Internacional e Política/Relações Internacionais pela Universidade de Lancaster, Inglaterra (1999); e bacharela em Direito pela UFAL (1993). 

Ana Paula Maielo Silva, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba

Professora Adjunta do Departamento de Relações Internacionais e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB). Atualmente é Professora Visitante na Macquarie University (Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations), onde está realizando pós-doutorado com a pesquisa: Epistemologias, gênero e religião: as experiências das mulheres muçulmanas e os desafios conceituais ao feminismo secular. Doutora em Ciência Política pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP); Pesquisadora Visitante e Doutorado Sanduíche no Centro para Estudos de Segurança Internacional na Universidade de Sidney, Austrália; Mestre em Relações Internacionais pelo Programa San Tiago Dantas; Bacharel em Relações Internacionais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais

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Published

2020-12-10

How to Cite

Castillo, B., Pacifico, A. P., & Silva, A. P. M. (2020). Production Transfer, Dependence Theory And Flying Geese: Africa In Chinese Relocation. Conjuntura Global, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/cg.v9i2.74480

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