Spillovers from China onto Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from the Flexible System of Global Models (FSGM)

By Derek Anderson, Jorge I Canales Kriljenko, Paulo Drummond, Pedro Espaillat, Dirk V Muir

October 6, 2015

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Derek Anderson, Jorge I Canales Kriljenko, Paulo Drummond, Pedro Espaillat, and Dirk V Muir. Spillovers from China onto Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from the Flexible System of Global Models (FSGM), (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed November 12, 2024

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Summary

What is the impact of economic spillovers from China on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)? This is an increasingly important question because of China’s growing economic role as a partner of SSA countriesfor both trade and the buildup of infrastructure in the region. The impact of spillovers from China has been an open question because of the challenge to use an internally consistent framework with solid economic foundations that accounts for both the direct impact China may have on individual countries in SSA through a variety of channels (trade, investment, financial) as well as the impact on the region through the global economy (economic activity and commodity prices). This paper explores those channels of transmission and provides illustrative order of magnitude for the short- and medium-term economic impact by using AFRMOD, a module of the Flexible System of Global Models (FSGM), a multicountry general equilibrium model developed at the IMF. Three alternative scenarios are considered: first, lower potential output in China that is originally misperceived as a temporary cyclical slowdown; second, structural reforms in China that aim to increase potential output; and third, a relocation of low-end manufacturing to sub-Saharan Africa.

Subject: Commodities, Commodity prices, Exports, Imports, International trade, Potential output, Prices, Production

Keywords: Africa, China, China-SSA trade, Commodity exporter, Commodity importer, Commodity prices, Economic activity, Exchange rate, Exports, General equilibrium models, Global, Imports, Macroeconomic interdepedence, Monetary policy, Potential output, Productivity-enhancing reform, Relocation scenario, Spillovers, Sub-Saharan Africa, WP

Publication Details

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34
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Working Paper No. 2015/221
Stock No:

WPIEA2015221
ISBN:

9781513557885
ISSN:

1018-5941

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