Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Asian B&R Conference on International Business Cooperation (ISBCD 2018)

Alignment of Belt and Road Initiative with Africa Agenda 2063

Authors
Honglie Zhang, Niway Tesfaye
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Honglie Zhang
Available Online October 2018.
DOI
10.2991/isbcd-18.2018.26How to use a DOI?
Keywords
belt and road initiative; agenda 2063, infrastructure deficit
Abstract

The Chinese state to strategically lead and solve the problems related with unemployment, unbalanced economic development of people of more than 1.4 billion, it has formulated 3 [1] major strategies, and among which Belt and Road Initiative (hereinafter called BRI) is the one. Africa, through its continental organization, AU, has formulated agenda 2063 in which it stipulates the aspirations of African and its implementation mechanisms for the next 40-50 years, which includes integrating African by solving infrastructure deficit. As BRI has embraced Africa as partner and agenda 2063 takes integration agenda as the means and result for the African renaissance there are some common elements between these two grand projects/initiatives. This research deals on questions: what are the main components of BRI and Agenda 2063? What are the institutional mechanisms to coordinate the plans? What has been done to coordinate till now? What needs to be done to coordinate them further and enhance the result of the plans? The researchers has concluded that though there are a lot of common objectives that the two plan want to achieve, what has been performed till now is not enough. Hence, the researchers have recommended some of the activities that need to be done to realize the objectives of the plans fully.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Asian B&R Conference on International Business Cooperation (ISBCD 2018)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
October 2018
ISBN
10.2991/isbcd-18.2018.26
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/isbcd-18.2018.26How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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