What Drives China's Growing Role in Africa ?

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=21282.0

This IMF paper attempts to provide a quantified assessment of China's multifaceted influence as market, donor, financer and investor, and contractor and builder. Though in the past official development aid predominated, the paper argues that government policies, markets for each other's exports, Africa's demand for infrastructure, and differences in China's approach to financing have together moved commercial activities-trade and investment-to the center of China-Africa economic relations.