THE RISE OF CHINA AND THE CHALLENGE TO DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN SSA Raphael 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 Chinas zip production (80% of world production) Guardian, 25 th May 2005
Chinas growth is not unique..
Special Issue World Development, Vol. 36, No. 2, February
VectorsDirectIndirect Trade Complementary Competitive Production and FDI DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Finance DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Governance DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Migration DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive A taxonomy for assessing the impact of Asian Drivers on other economies
VectorsDirectIndirect Trade Complementary Competitive Production and FDI DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Finance DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Governance DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Migration DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive The impacts may be competitive or complementary
VectorsDirectIndirect Trade Complementary Competitive Production and FDI DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Finance DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Governance DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Migration DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive And they may be direct or indirect
VectorsDirectIndirect Trade Complementary Competitive Production and FDI DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Finance DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Governance DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Migration DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive We know much more about the direct impacts
VectorsDirectIndirect Trade Complementary Competitive Production and FDI DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Finance DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Governance DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Migration DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive From the rich country perspective, we tend to focus on the competitive effects
VectorsDirectIndirect Trade Complementary Competitive Production and FDI DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Finance DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Governance DirectIndirect Complementary Competitive Migration DirectIndirect 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 East Asia China South Asia Latin America and Caribbean Sub-Saharan Africa Middle East, North Africa, Turkey
World Manufacturing Export Price, IMF, World Economic Outlook Database
EU Imports from China 1 st Q 2005/1 st Q 2004China Market Share in EU-25 Imports Volumes %Price %1 Q 2004 %1 Q 2005 % T-shirts Pullovers Mens trousers Blouses Womens coats Bras Socks and pantyhose Linen and ramie yarns Linen fabrics Source: Euratex data as reported by Nathan Associates
Caught between a rock and a hard place Percentage of sectors with negative price trends, 1988/ /2001 by technological intensity and country-grouping
Actual and projected global share of Chinas consumption of base metals Source: Macquarie Mining
Enormous demand potential Kgs/capitaGDP per capita ($US1995) AluminiumCopperSteel Japan ,559 21,869 Korea ,891 10,841 China ,103
The agricultural sector, (OECD/FAO, 2007) Biofuels raise grain prices Raised demand in China for: –Beef –Pigmeat –Milk powder –Oilseeds for cattle
… structural changes such as increased feedstock demand for biofuel production, and the reduction of surpluses due to past policy reforms, may keep [agricultural product] prices above historic equilibrium levels during the next 10 years…. Winners are: Brazil (sugar, oilseeds, meat) Argentina (cereals and dairy products) Russia/Ukraine (coarse grains) East and south east Asia (rice, veg oils, poultry)
SSAs Recent Experience with growth, industrialisation and exports
Annual growth rates (%) World SSAChinaIndia GDP growth Agricultural value added Industrial value added Manufacturing, value added2.5 NA6.1 Services value added
Africa China India Developing (excl China) WORLD Share of Manufacturing in GDP
SSA: Growth of merchandise trade, (%) ExportsImports World SSA China India
Composition of SSA exports 2005 Oil/Gas as % of Total47% Manufactures as % of Total21%
Broad and narrow manufactures Narrow manufactures are total manufactures minus –diamonds –precious stones –re-exports –oil and gas by-products –uranium
Broad Manufactures"6,0396,83812,453 Narrow Manufactures2,6683,4354,641 Narrow as % total SSA Manufactured exports excl SA ($mn)
Apparel Textiles853 Share of SSA (excl SA) manufactured exports (%)
Value of SSA and China C+T exports to US, 2004/2006 AGOA-2685 Kenya-5113 Lesotho Madagascar Mauritius SA-5389 Swazi-24136
Technological Intensity of SSAs trade: Share of exports comprising different categories of products, 2005 (%). World (excl. China, India)ChinaIntra-SSA Primary Commodities Resource Based Low Technology 4113 Medium Technology 9223 High Technology 10.15
SSA EXPORTS SSA IMPORTS CHINA IMPORTS CHINA EXPORTS SSA GAIN SSA LOSS Clothing footwear Hard commodities Clothing footwear 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 dont 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?