Team Assignment 2

IBE401: The Global Business Environment

Think

Read

Find out about it …

• What is the data telling us about Chinese business activity in Africa?

• What sort of business is going on?

• What are the objectives?• Make a note of all

important factual information

Now you are in possession of the facts …

• Has Chinese business activity been a good thing?

• Do both Chinese and African countries benefit?

• What are academics and other commentators saying?

• What is your analysis of China’s increased activity in Africa?

Deliver

Is India missing

out on the action?

India in Africa

• There is speculation that a third India-Africa Forum Summit will take place in 2014

• While PM Manmohan Singh has pressing matters to deal with at home, close colleagues are pointing to the huge strides China is making, and that India should follow suit

• He is seeking advice from some expert international business consultants based in Chandigarh as to what approach should be taken at the forthcoming Summit …

Prepare a presentation for the PM

• Dr Manmohan Singh seeks diversity of opinion and he has requested different consultancy firms be contacted to tender for this work

• His aides have been careful, therefore, to approach consultants who can provide critical analysis of the various international political economy perspectives on this question

Guidelines…

• Prepare an engaging and informative PowerPoint presentation for the PM and his advisors (no more than 20 slides)

• Provide some background to the situation and how it has evolved

• Provide a critique of China’s approach to Africa to date

• Make recommendations as to how India should engage with African countries moving forward.