The Chinese-financed Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Kenya is one of the flagship projects of the Belt and Road Initiative. But the SGR like other Chinese-sponsored railway projects elsewhere in the Global South also serves as a prime example of the risks to developing countries in taking on so much debt.
Keren Zhu, a global China post-doctoral researcher at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center, together with two other scholars recently completedย a first-of-its-kind studyย that explores the winners and losers in the Kenyan SGR project.
She joins Eric & Cobus to share the findings of their research and what it says about the future of the BRI.
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