Spatial distribution of China's aid to Africa:A study based on Standard Deviational Ellipse
Poverty is at the forefront of Africa's efforts to achieve the United Nations'2030 Sus-tainable Development Goals(SDGs).China's aid to Africa takes poverty eradication as its start-ing point and goal.Does the spatial distribution of China's aid to Africa take into account the spatial distribution of Africa's poor population?This paper used"Aid Spatial Difference"to mea-sure the difference between the spatial distribution of China's aid to Africa and the spatial distri-bution of the poor population in Africa.Based on the geocoded data of China's aid to Africa and the population data of Africa from 2000 to 2014,this paper adopted Standard Deviation Ellipse method to analyze the spatial-temporal evolution relationship between China's aid to Africa and African poor population.This paper tested that spatial-temporal evolution relationship from two perspectives,the number of aid projects and the amount of aid.This paper finds that the spatial distribution of China's aid to Africa favors Africa's poor population.It is especially prominent in the location of aid projects,the growth rate of aid to Africa and the change of the gravity center of aid amount.This is consistent with China's purpose of prioritizing poverty eradication and helping Africa to achieve the UN's 2030 SDGs.
Chinese foreign aid to Africaaid spatial differencepoverty reductionStandard Deviational Ellipse
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