01867cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF018165 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484335406 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Mu, Yibin. China's Impacts on SSA through the Lens of Growth and Exports / Yibin Mu, Chu Wang, Dong Frank Wu. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017. 1 online resource (28 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The analysis of China's impacts on the 44 SSA countries reveals that: (i) after joining the WTO in 2001, China has started to impact significantly on SSA growth: one-percent increase in China's GDP per capita leads to 0.02 percent increase on the SSA's GDP per capita; (ii) oil and investment-goods exporters benefit more from China's growth; (iii) compared to China's consumption, its investment growth acts as a more important channel in influencing SSA; (iv) exports to China, highly linked to China's growth, is an important indicator for SSA's exports. Our results call for SSA countries to be well prepared for China's rebalancing given its growing economic influence and to proactively search a sustainable way to continuously enhance productivity. Mode of access: Internet Frank Wu, Dong. Wang, Chu. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/288 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2017/288/001.2017.issue-288-en.xml IMF e-Library