THE WORLD BEYOND THE HEADLINES presents:

Deborah Brautigam

“The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa”

Thursday, February 4th

6:00-7:30 pm

International House, Home Room

1414 E. 59th St., Chicago IL 60637

http://cis.uchicago.edu/events/wbh/

Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? This well-timed book provides the first comprehensive account of China’s aid and economic cooperation overseas. Deborah Brautigam tackles the myths and realities, explaining what the Chinese are doing, how they do it, how much aid they give, and how it all fits into their “going global” strategy. Will Chinese engagement benefit Africa? Using hard data and a series of vivid stories ranging across agriculture, industry, natural resources, and governance, Brautigam’s fascinating book provides an answer.

Deborah Brautigam is the author of “Chinese Aid and African Development”, “Aid Dependence and Governance”, and coeditor of “Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries”. She is a professor in the International Development Program at American University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC.

Cosponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies [http://ceas.uchicago.edu] and the African Studies Workshop [http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/africanstudies].

The World Beyond the Headlines series is a collaborative project of the University of Chicago Center for International Studies, the International House Global Voices Program, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, and is funded in part by the McCormick Foundation. Its aim is to bring scholars and journalists together to consider major international issues and how they are covered in the media.

The World Beyond the Headlines Winter Quarter schedule can be viewed at http://cis.uchicago.edu/events/wbh