WG 08.1: WG Industrialisation Strategies - Session I

Time: Thursday, 26/Jun/2008: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Session Chair: Meine Pieter van Dijk

Presentations

Le modèle de développement chinois sert-il le développement durable ou le sous-développement durable en Afrique subsaharienne ?
Thierry Amougou
IED, UCL, Belgique

China – Nigeria Economic Co-operation: Conceptualization, Contending Issues and Prospects and its Iimplications for the West African Sub-Regions
Akongbowa B. Amadasun
Benson Idahosa University, Nigeria

Ghanaian Graduates in Enterprise: Policy Challenges for Enterprise Development
Jerome R. Awortwe-Abban
Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands

Sino-African Bilateral Investment Treaties: Implications for Economic Development
Axel Berger
German Development Institute (DIE), Germany


WG 08.2: WG Industrialisation Strategies - Session II

Time: Thursday, 26/Jun/2008: 3:15pm - 4:45pm
Session Chair: Meine Pieter van Dijk

Presentations

Les effets pour la Guinée de l’irruption de la Chine et de l’Inde : compétitifs ou complémentaires
Sékou Doumbouya and Ibrahima Gassama
Groupe de Recherche et d'Appui au Développement Economique et Social, Guinée

The Rising Profile of China's Energy Consumption & Implications for Africa's Oil & Gas Industry
Samuel A. Igbatayo
Igbinedion University, Nigeria

Analyse du rôle de la Chine en Afrique
Bamba Ka
Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO), Sénégal

Les petits commerçants et entrepreneurs chinois au Mali et Sénégal
Antoine Kernen and Benoît Vulliet
Université de Lausanne, Suisse


WG 08.3: WG Industrialisation Strategies - Session III

Time: Friday, 27/Jun/2008: 9:00am - 10:30am
Session Chair: Meine Pieter van Dijk 

Presentations

China and Africa: The Dynamics and Prospects of a New Model of South-South Cooperation
Chibuzo N. Nwoke
Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Nigeria

Chinafrique et industrialisation pétrolière en Afrique
Etanislas Ngodi
REMIDAC, Congo

Opening the Black Box of China-Africa Relations: the Magnitude and Composition of Chinese Investments in Zambia
Peter Kragelund
Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark


WG 08.4: WG Industrialisation Strategies - Session IV

Time: Friday, 27/Jun/2008: 11:00am - 12:30am
Session Chair: Meine Pieter van Dijk

Presentations  

The Rise of China and Other New State Donors as a Challenge to the Development Paradigm? Some Basic Considerations.
Clemens Six
Austrian Development Foundation (ÖFSE), Austria

Business as Usual or Yellow Man´s Burden: Chinese Labour and Development Policies in Africa
Marina Thorborg
Institute for Life Sciences, Södertörn University College, Sweden

From Margin to Centre: The Emerging China, Sino-African Relations and Prospects for Sustainable Development in Africa
James E. Wanki
University of Limerick, Ireland

The EU's Response to China's Africa Safari
Uwe Wissenbach
European Commission, Belgium