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Koop, Jim (2020)

CHINA’S SURINAME - A Case Study on China's Economic Developing World Policy

Master thesis | History (MA)

A research on how the Chinese economic influence in Suriname in the period 2000-2019 compares with China’s international economic strategy elsewhere in the developing world; Chinese economic activities in Suriname has been rising tremendously over the recent decades, but does this mean that Suriname also runs the risk of getting caught in a debt trap, as feared for many other third world countries, or is Suriname a different case? And what role does the Chinese ethnic population of Suriname play in the increasing Chinese economic dominance in Suriname? A wide set of sources, both static and empirical, have been studied to form an answer to these questions.

China

Suriname

Debt Trap

China's Economic Policy

Developing World

Ethnic Chinese

Loans

FDI

Author

Koop, Jim

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

MA History

Supervisors

Touwen, L.J.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en