The Next Factory of the World
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The Next Factory of the World

How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa

Irene Yuan Sun • Harvard Business Review Press • 2017

Chinese Manufacturing In Africa

by David Meyer

McKinsey consultant Irene Yuan Sun serves as tour guide in this revealing look at China’s impact on African manufacturing.

 

Irene Yuan Sun is the lead author of McKinsey & Company’s research report on China’s economic engagement in Africa and co-leads the firm’s work on Chinese economic engagement. She makes a compelling case that manufacturing can pull Africa out of poverty and reports on McKinsey’s findings that by 2017 more than 1,500 Chinese companies had invested in factories in Africa.

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