China’s presence grows ever larger in Latin America. China is now the largest trading partner and creditor of several Latin American countries and the regions’ second largest investor, behind only the United States.
What are the implications of the surge in Chinese trade and finance to Latin America? In The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America, GDAE documented that since 2005, China has provided approximately $86 billion in loan commitments to Latin American countries – the majority of which were loans in exchange for oil. In 2010, China offered more loans to Latin America than the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States combined. Is China displacing the competition with “low-ball” financing? Will China’s financing terms favor or hurt sustainable development in the region?
Building on Kevin P. Gallagher’s and Roberto Porzecanski’s book, The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization, GDAE is collaborating with Boston University on research to explore the implications of China’s rising prominence in Latin America. With ongoing original research, in collaboration with a Working Group of researchers from Latin America, we will regularly update the data on financing and investment and assess the social, economic, and environmental impacts of Chinese investment and trade. As Brazil and India expand their own outward development financing and foreign investment, GDAE will use the Chinese experience to draw lessons for sustainable South-South trade and investment.
Os Novos Bancos em Cena: Financiamentos Chineses na América Latina, Kevin P. Gallagher, Amos Irwin, e Katherine Koleski, Inter-American Dialogue Report, updated May 2013
¿Un mejor trato? Análisis comparativo de los préstamos chinos en América Latina, Kevin P. Gallagher, Amos Irwin, y Katherine Koleski, Centro de Estudios China-México de la Facultad de Economía de la UNAM, Updated January 2013
Capitalizing on the China Cycle: Time is Running out For Latin America, Kevin P. Gallagher, Inter-American Dialogue Policy Brief, December 2012
Chinese Investment and Sustainable Development in Peru: A Comparative Analysis, Amos Irwin and Kevin P. Gallagher, Working Group Discussion Paper DP34, December 2012
The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Amos Irwin, and Katherine Koleski, Inter-American Dialogue Report, February 2012
China Engages Latin America: Tracing the Trajectory by Adrian H. Hearn and José Luis León-Manríquez, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Americas Quarterly, November 2011
Taking the China Challenge: China and the Future of Latin American Economic Development, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Latin America 2060: Consolidation or Crisis?, Pardee Center Task Force Report, September 2011
China Discovers Latin America, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Berkeley Review, University of California, Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies, Fall/Winter 2011
Latin America’s China Challenge, by Kevin P. Gallagher, Policy Innovations, Carnegie Council, January 20, 2011
"Taking the China Challenge: China and the Future of Latin American Economic Development", by Kevin P. Gallagher, Latin American Trade Network, Serie Brief No. 58, November 2010
"Latin America must see China as a trade threat, as well as a partner," by Kevin Gallagher, Financial Times, November 11, 2010
"China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization," by Kevin P. Gallagher, Issues in Brief, No. 18, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, October 2010
"China crashes Cafta's party" Central American nations have long been trying to hook their economies to the US market, but they can't compete with China," by Kevin P. Gallagher, The Guardian, June 5, 2010
"What's Left for Latin America to do with China?" by Kevin Gallagher, NACLA Report on the Americas, May/June 2010
"China and the Latin America Commodities Boom: A Critical Assessment," by Kevin P. Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski, Political Economy Research Institute, Working Paper Number 192, February, 2009
“Policies for Industrial Learning in China and Mexico,” Kevin P. Gallagher and Mehdi Shafaeddin, RIS Discussion Paper #150, February 2009
"Taking Away the Ladder: China and the Competitiveness of Mexican Exports," by Kevin P. Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski, Americas Program Policy Brief, September 3, 2008
China Matters: A Report on China’s Economic Impact in Latin America, Kevin P. Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski, Latin American Research Review (2008). (NOTICE: Author Posting. © Latin American Research Review. This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.)
“The Dynamism of Mexican Exports: Lost in (Chinese) Translation?” by Kevin P.Gallagher, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, and Roberto Porzecanski, World Development 36, 8, August 2008, 1365-1380. (NOTICE: Author Posting. © World Development. This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.)
"Climbing Up the Technology Ladder? High-Technology Exports in China and Latin America," by Kevin P. Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Paper No. 20, January 2008
What a Difference a Few Years Makes: China and the Competitiveness of Mexican Exports by Kevin P. Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski, Oxford Development Studies 35:2 (2007). (NOTICE: Author Posting. © Oxford Development Studies. This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.)
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The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America
