THE RISE OF CHINA AND THE CHALLENGE TO DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN SSA Raphael Kaplinsky, Dept of Policy and Practice, The Open University, UK.

THE RISE OF CHINA AND THE CHALLENGE TO DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN SSARaphael Kaplinsky,

Dept of Policy and Practice,

The Open University,

UK

Qiaotou

• In a remote area of China• First commercial workshop making buttons

established in 1980 • Now 700 factories, making 15bn buttons and 200m

metres of zips• 1,300 button shops selling 1,400 varieties of buttons• 60% of global button production and most of China’s

zip production (80% of world production)

Guardian, 25th May 2005

China’s growth is not unique..

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Special Issue World Development, Vol. 36, No. 2,

February 2008

http://asiandrivers.open.ac.uk/

Vectors Direct Indirect

Trade

Complementary

Competitive

Production and FDI

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Finance

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Governance

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Migration

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

A taxonomy for assessing the impact of Asian Drivers on other economies

Vectors Direct Indirect

Trade

Complementary

Competitive

Production and FDI

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Finance

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Governance

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Migration

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

The impacts may be competitive or complementary

Vectors Direct Indirect

Trade

Complementary

Competitive

Production and FDI

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Finance

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Governance

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Migration

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

And they may be direct or indirect

Vectors Direct Indirect

Trade

Complementary

Competitive

Production and FDI

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Finance

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Governance

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Migration

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

We know much more about the direct impacts

Vectors Direct Indirect

Trade

Complementary

Competitive

Production and FDI

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Finance

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Governance

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Migration

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

From the rich country perspective, we tend to focus on the competitive effects

Vectors Direct Indirect

Trade

Complementary

Competitive

Production and FDI

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Finance

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Governance

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

Migration

Direct Indirect

Complementary

Competitive

But in SSA, the complementary impacts are often much more visible

The drive to industrialisation

• Close association between incomes and industrialisation

• The terms of trade favour manufactures

Commodities-manufactures terms of trade

The drive to industrialisation

• Close association between incomes and industrialisation

• The terms of trade favour manufactures• Manufactures are (relative to agriculture) income

elastic and price inelastic• Synthetic substitutes for natural products• Manufacturing embodies rents – agriculture does

not• Manufacturing can be labour intensive – primary

commodities are very capital intensive

The orthodoxy

Manufacturing exports are key:

• Competitive effects

• Scale effects

• Learning effects

Share of manufacturing value added

Share of the world

Share of developing countries

1985 1998 1985 1998

East Asia China South Asia Latin America and Caribbean Sub-Saharan Africa Middle East, North Africa, Turkey

4.11.40.86.71.01.5

13.97.01.85.20.82.4

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1st Q 2005/1st Q 2004 China Market Share in EU-25 Imports

Volumes % Price % 1 Q 2004 % 1 Q 2005 %

T-shirts 164 -26 7 17

Pullovers 534 -47 6 38

Men’s trousers 413 -16 6 35

Blouses 186 -24 6 22

Women’s coats 184 -18 6 10

Bras 139 -15 30 49

Socks and pantyhose

63 -22 30 54

Linen and ramie yarns

51 1 27 45

Linen fabrics 257 1 10 45

Source: Euratex data as reported by Nathan Associates

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Actual and projected global share of China’s consumption of base metals

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China's Share of Global Demand

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The agricultural sector, 2007-2016(OECD/FAO, 2007)

• Biofuels raise grain prices

• Raised demand in China for:

–Beef

–Pigmeat

–Milk powder

–Oilseeds for cattle

“…structural changes such as increased feedstock demand for biofuel production, and the reduction of surpluses due to past policy reforms, may keep [agricultural product] prices above historic equilibrium levels during the next 10 years….

Winners are: Brazil (sugar, oilseeds, meat) Argentina (cereals and dairy products) Russia/Ukraine (coarse grains) East and south east Asia (rice, veg oils, poultry)

SSA’s Recent Experience with growth, industrialisation and exports

Annual growth rates 1998-2005 (%)

World SSA China India

GDP growth 2.9 3.7 8.9 6.4

Agricultural value added 2.3 3.6 3.5 2.4

Industrial value added 2.2 3.6 9.9 6.2

Manufacturing, value added 2.5 2.5 NA 6.1

Services value added 2.9 3.7 9.6 8.3

1995 2000 2004

Africa 12.1 12.3 12.1

China 34.7 36.7 39

India 16.3 15.7 15.0

Developing (excl China) 19.2 20 20.4

WORLD 19.8 20.1 19.9

Share of Manufacturing in GDP

SSA: Growth of merchandise trade, 1998-2004 (%)

Exports Imports

World 8.8 9.0

SSA 12.5 8.1

China 21.4 26.5

India 13.8 14.5

Composition of SSA exports2005

Oil/Gas as % of Total 47%

Manufactures as % of Total 21%

Broad and narrow manufactures

Narrow manufactures are total manufactures minus

–diamonds

–precious stones

–re-exports

–oil and gas by-products

–uranium

1995 2000 2005

“Broad Manufactures" 6,039 6,838 12,453

“Narrow Manufactures” 2,668 3,435 4,641

Narrow as % total 44 50 37

SSA Manufactured exports excl SA ($mn)

1995 2000 2005

Apparel 41 48 50

Textiles 8 5 3

Share of SSA (excl SA) manufactured exports (%)

Value of SSA and China C+T exports to US, 2004/2006

AGOA -26 85

Kenya -5 113

Lesotho -15 171

Madagascar -26 108

Mauritius -48 104

SA -53 89

Swazi -24 136

Technological Intensity of SSA’s trade: Share of exports comprising different categories of products, 2005 (%).

World (excl. China, India) China Intra-SSA

Primary Commodities 67 81 17

Resource Based 16 15 35

Low Technology 4 1 13

Medium Technology 9 2 23

High Technology 1 0.1 5

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Share of SSA agricultural exports excl SA

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SSA EXPORTS

SSA IMPORTS

CHINA IMPORTS

CHINAEXPORTS

SSA GAIN

SSA GAINSSA LOSS

SSA LOSS

Clothingfootwear

Hard commodities

Clothingfootwear

Oil All SSA

SA, Lesotho, Swaziland,

Madagascar,Kenya, Mauritius

Most SSA

Oil exporters, Zambia, SA, DRC, Botswana, Ghana, Gabon, etc

So what?

• A complex picture with nuanced impacts and opportunities

• Imbalances in the global economy

• We don’t know the spread effects

• How long will the terms of trade reversal last?

Regarding precious stones and hard commodities

• Descent into conflict?

• The economic management of mineral rents

– stability

– over time

• Impact on other sectors (“Dutch Disease”)

• Adverse distributional effects

• But this is a small gorup of countries

Regarding soft commodities

• How to take maximum advantage, and speedily

• How to maximise positive distributional impact by including small scale producers

• Also addressing niche sectors

Regarding manufactures

• Manufacturing is the source of capability-growth and employment

• But the Washington Consensus circumscribes trade and industrial policies,

• So:

–How to protect producers in the local market?

–How to maintain access to external markets–How to sustain industrial policies

Conclusions

• Indirect impacts are more important direct ones

• A problem for the future as well as the present

• Relevance to the rest of the world?

• Open playing field? – tilted against whom?

• What attraction does globalisation hold for SSA?