China's digital expansion in the Global South: Systematic literature review and future research agenda

R Heeks, AV Ospina, C Foster, P Gao, X Han… - The Information …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
At the intersection of China's growing global presence and growing digital power lies its
digital expansion in the low-and middle-income countries of the Global South. Worth billions …

The impact of official development aid flows on business internationalisation

FJ Paredes Nachón, C López‐Duarte… - Business Strategy & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article analysis how official development aid (ODA) flows impact the international
growth opportunities and processes of private firms in donor and recipient countries. It …

Africa's roads to digital development: paving the way for Chinese structural power in the ICT sector?

S Arnold - Review of International Political Economy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Over the past few decades, China emerged as Africa's main partner in digital development.
Sino-African cooperation in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector …

[HTML][HTML] Chain upgrading, technology transfer, and legitimacy: The Schumpeterian character of China in the information and communication technology sector in SSA

D Botchie, D Sarpong, D Meissner - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drawing on technical change and technology transfer theories, we explore the
Schumpeterian character of China in the information and communications technology (ICT) …

[HTML][HTML] African agency in ICT infrastructure provider choice: Navigating access to foreign finance and technology

S Arnold - Telecommunications Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
After nearly three decades of “ICT for development”, the rollout of ICT backbone
infrastructure remains challenging throughout Africa. African states do not only depend on …

Drivers and barriers of digital market integration in East Africa: A case study of Rwanda and Tanzania

S Arnold - Politics and Governance, 2022 - ssoar.info
Digital development has become a firm pillar in the national development strategies of many
countries in the Global South. Although the geopolitical competition over ICTs leveraged …

The limits of mutual benefit: A neo-mercantilist perspective on China's economic relations with Nigeria

T Amusan, P Nel - South African Journal of International Affairs, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
What is the best term to describe China's global geo-economic strategy? This article posits
that neo-mercantilism accurately describes China's global geo-economic strategy. Neo …

Determinants of Chinese and Western-backed development finance in the global electricity sector

JMT Sauer, LD Anadón, J Kirchherr, JP Braeckman… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Despite China's recent rise as a major public finance provider for the electricity sector of the
developing world, there is limited knowledge on the determinants of the allocation of its …

BRICS de-Americanizing the Internet?

DK Thussu - BRICS Media, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter argues that, while the Internet continues to be dominated by the West, in
particular the United States, in terms of its infrastructure, economics and governance, this …

Network failure in Ethiopian education

IC Jang - Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the factors that limit ICT-integrated teaching in Ethiopian secondary
schools. Following Actor-Network Theory, the relationship between teachers and ICT …