19 minutes • Episode 5

Podcast: Transforming Growth Series

The Impact of Chinese FDI in Africa - Nicola Limodio

23 April 2021

The Transforming Growth series, narrated by Tim Phillips, investigates some of the most important new research in structural transformation, growth and economic development.

Interviewers

Tim Phillips

Interviewees

Nicola Limodio

In this fifth and final episode, Tim talks to Nicola Limodio (Bocconi University) about the investment of Chinese firms in developing economies.

Read The Impact of Chinese FDI in Africa: Evidence From Ethiopia by Riccardo Crescenzi (London School of Economics) and Nicola Limodio (Bocconi University) presented at the STEG Annual Conference 2021.

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