- Title
- China and the World Bank - How Contrasting Development Approaches affect the Stability of African States
- Author(s)
- Kai Gehring Kai Gehring (University of Zurich, CESifo)
- Lennart Kaplan Lennart Kaplan (German Development Institute)
- Melvin H.L. Wong Melvin Wong (Leibniz University Hannover)
- Abstract
- China’s development model challenges the approaches of traditional Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that both aim at stability, but differ in the norms propagated to achieve that. Using fixed effects and IV estimations, we analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the WB and China does not increase outright conflict nor any type of citizen protest, on average. Both even reduce outright conflict by governments against civilians. Still, Chinese aid is associated with more government repression and an increased acceptance of authoritarian norms, while the World Bank projects strengthen democratic values.
- Creation Date
- 2019-10
- Section URL ID
- Paper Number
- 15
- URL
- https://esoc.princeton.edu/publications/esoc-working-paper-15-china-and-world-bank-how-contrasting-development-approaches
- File Function
- Jel
- D74, F52, H81, O19, P51
- Keyword(s)
- Development Models, Development Aid, Stability, Conflict, Repression, World Bank, China, Africa, Geolocation
- Suppress
- false
- Series
- 12