Tuesday, October 25, 2016

China's Involvement in Cameroon's Hydropower Sector

The China-Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies published in August 2016 a study titled "Capturing The Rains: A Comparative Study of Chinese Involvement in Cameroon's Hydropower Sector" by Yunnan Chen and David G. Landry.

The paper compares two partially-complete hydropower projects in Cameroon financed and constructed in the last five years: one financed by China Eximbank, the other financed by a multilateral consortium led by the World Bank. The dams are being constructed by two Chinese state owned enterprises: Sinohydro and China Water and Electricity.