Publication date:
Sunday, 16 June 2013
Type:
- Research paper
Producer:
External to ACUI
Project theme:
Document:

In the first phase of our research project we established that in contrast to over-exaggerating local discourses the direct impact of the resident Chinese economic actors on local economic practices and social institutions in urban West Africa lags behind what we anticipated, although Chinese economic activities are indirectly opening up new opportunities for local actors.