Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

"AIIB" redirects here. For other uses, see AIIB (disambiguation).
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Abbreviation AIIB
Formation
  • 16 January 2016 (Open for business)
  • 25 December 2015 (Entry into force Articles of Agreement)
Type Regional Investment Bank
Legal status Treaty
Purpose Crediting
Headquarters Beijing, China
Region served
Asia, including Oceania
Membership
37 Founding Members [1]
Official language
English[2]
President
 Jin Liqun[3]
Main organ
  • Board of governors
  • Board of directors
Website www.aiib.org
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Simplified Chinese 亚洲基础设施投资银行
Traditional Chinese 亞洲基礎設施投資銀行
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 亚投行
Traditional Chinese 亞投行

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is an international financial institution that aims to support the building of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. The bank has 37 member states (all "Founding Members") and was proposed as an initiative by the government of China.[4] The initiative gained support from 37 regional and 20 non-regional Prospective Founding Members (PFM), all of which have signed the Articles of Agreement that form the legal basis for the bank. The bank started operation after the agreement entered into force on 25 December 2015, after ratifications were received from 10 member states holding a total number of 50% of the initial subscriptions of the Authorized Capital Stock.[5] Major economies that did not become PFM include the G7/G8 members United States, Japan and Canada.

The United Nations has addressed the launch of AIIB as having potential for "scaling up financing for sustainable development"[6] for the concern of global economic governance.[7] The capital of the bank is $100 billion, equivalent to 2⁄3 of the capital of the Asian Development Bank and about half that of the World Bank.[8]

The bank was proposed by China in 2013[9] and the initiative was launched at a ceremony in Beijing in October 2014.[10]

History

The first news reports about the AIIB appeared in October 2013.[11] The Chinese government has been frustrated with what it regards as the slow pace of reforms and governance, and wants greater input in global established institutions like the IMF, World Bank and Asian Development Bank which it claims are dominated by American, European and Japanese interests.[12]

In April 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivered a keynote speech at the opening of the Boao Forum for Asia and said that China was ready to intensify consultations with relevant parties in and outside Asia on the preparations for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.[13]

The Asian Development Bank Institute published a report in 2010 which said that the region requires $8 trillion to be invested from 2010 to 2020 in infrastructure for the region to continue economic development.[12][14] In a 2014 editorial, The Guardian newspaper wrote that the new bank could allow Chinese capital to finance these projects and allow it a greater role to play in the economic development of the region commensurate with its growing economic and political clout.[15] But until March 2015, China in the ADB has only 5.47 percent voting right, while Japan and US have a combined 26 percent voting right (13 percent each) with a share in subscribed capital of 15.7 percent and 15.6 percent, respectively. Dominance by both countries and slow reforms underlie China's wish to establish the AIIB, while both countries worry about China's increasing influence.[16]

In June 2014 China proposed doubling the registered capital of the bank from $50 billion to $100 billion and invited India to participate in the founding of the bank.[17][18] On 24 October 2014, twenty-one countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the AIIB in Beijing, China: Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mongolia, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.[19] Indonesia's joining was slightly delayed due to their new presidential administration not being able to review the membership in time. Indonesia signed the MOU on 25 November 2014.[20]

The U.S. allegedly tried to keep Australia and South Korea from becoming prospective founding members, after they expressed an interest in it.[21] However, both Australia and South Korea applied to join the bank in March 2015.[22][23][24]

Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang announced in his budget speech in February 2015 that the territory would join the AIIB.[25] It did however not become one of the prospective founding members and negotiated as part of the Chinese delegation.

In early March 2015, the United Kingdom's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced that the UK had decided to apply to join the Bank, becoming the first major Western country to do so.[26] The announcement was criticised by the U.S. Obama Administration. A US government official told Financial Times, "We are wary about a trend toward constant accommodation of China, which is not the best way to engage a rising power." The official further stated that the British decision was taken after "no consultation with the US."[27] In response, the UK indicated that the subject had been discussed between Chancellor Osborne and US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew for several months preceding the decision. It was further stated that joining the bank as a founding member would allow the UK to influence the development of the institution. By encouraging Chinese investments in the next generations of nuclear power plants, Osborne announced that "the City of London would become the base for the first clearing house for the yuan outside Asia."[28]

Following the criticism, the White House National Security Council, in a statement to The Guardian, declared,

Our position on the AIIB remains clear and consistent. The United States and many major global economies all agree there is a pressing need to enhance infrastructure investment around the world. We believe any new multilateral institution should incorporate the high standards of the World Bank and the regional development banks. Based on many discussions, we have concerns about whether the AIIB will meet these high standards, particularly related to governance, and environmental and social safeguards […] The international community has a stake in seeing the AIIB complement the existing architecture, and to work effectively alongside the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.[29]

Several other European states – including Germany, France and Italy – followed the UK's decision to join the AIIB in March.[30] German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble stated, "We want to contribute our long-standing experience with international financial institutions to the creation of the new bank by setting high standards and helping the bank to get a high international reputation."[31] In March 2015, the South Korean Ministry of Strategy and Finance announced that it, too, is planning to join the AIIB, citing its potential in helping South Korean companies win deals in infrastructural projects as well expanding South Korea's influence in international banking as a founding member.[32] States could indicate their interest in becoming a Prospective Founding Member until 31 March 2015.

Negotiations took place in the framework of five Chief Negotiators Meetings (CNMs) which took place between November 2014 and May 2015. The Articles of Agreement, the legal framework of the bank, were concluded in the fifth CNM. It was signed on 29 June 2015 by 50 of the named 57 prospective founding members in Beijing, while the other seven signed later.

On 25 December 2015, the Articles of Agreement entered into force. On 16 January 2016, the board of governors of the bank convened its inaugural meeting in Beijing and declared the bank open for business. Jin Liqun was elected as the bank's president for a five-year term. 17 states (Australia, Austria, Brunei, China, Georgia, Germany, Jordan, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Myanmar, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea and the United Kingdom) together holding 50.1% of the initial subscriptions of Authorized Capital Stock, had deposited the instrument of ratification for the agreement, triggering entry into force, and making them all founding members[33] and bringing the Articles of Agreement, the bank's charter, into force. 12 other states followed later, taking the amount of Authorized Capital Stock held by the 29 members of the bank to 74%.

AIIB within PRC policy thinking

Fostering long-term economic development

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank can be construed as a natural inter-national extension of the infrastructure-driven economic development framework that has sustained the rapid economic growth of China since the adoption of the Chinese economic reform under chairman Deng Xiaoping. It stems from the notion that long-term economic growth can only be achieved through massive, systematic, and broad-based investments in infrastructure assets – in contrast with the more short-term "export-driven" and "domestic consumption" development models favored by mainstream Neoclassical economists and pursued inconsiderately by many developing countries in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century with generally disappointing results.[34][35]

Infrastructure as regional integration and foreign policy tool

In his 29 March 2015 speech at the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) annual conference, President Xi Jinping said:

[T]he Chinese economy is deeply integrated with the global economy and forms an important driving force of the economy of Asia and even the world at large. […] China's investment opportunities are expanding. Investment opportunities in infrastructure connectivity as well as in new technologies, new products, new business patterns, and new business models are constantly springing up. […] China's foreign cooperation opportunities are expanding. We support the multilateral trading system, devote ourselves to the Doha Round negotiations, advocate the Asia-Pacific free trade zone, promote negotiations on regional comprehensive economic partnership, advocate the construction of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), boost economic and financial cooperation in an all-round manner, and work as an active promoter of economic globalization and regional integration

Xi insisted also that the Silk Road Fund and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank would foster "economic connectivity and a new-type of industrialization [in the Asia Pacific area], and [thus] promote the common development of all countries as well as the peoples' joint enjoyment of development fruits."[36]

Legal basis and membership

Articles
Articles of Agreement of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

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  Signatories (regional)
  Parties (regional)
  Signatories (non-regional)
  Parties (non-regional)
Signed 29 June 2015
Location Beijing, China
Effective 25 December 2015
Condition Ratification by 10 states, comprising 50% of initial subscriptions of capital stock[2]
Signatories 57
Parties 31 (72.2% of initial subscriptions of capital stock)[37]
Depositary Government of the People’s Republic of China[2]
Languages Chinese, English (used in disputes) and French[2]

The Articles of Agreement form the legal basis for the Bank. 57 Prospective Founding Members (PFM) named in annex A of the agreement are eligible to sign and ratify the Articles, thus becoming a member of the Bank. Other states, which are parties to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or the Asian Development Bank may become members after approval of their accession by the bank.[5]

The Articles were negotiated by the Prospective Founding Members, with Hong Kong joining the negotiations via China.[38][39]

Founding members

The 57 Prospective Founding Members can become Founding Members through:

All Prospective Founding Members have signed the Articles, 31 of which have ratified them, comprising 75.05% of the shares of all PFM. The formal actions towards becoming a Founding Member are shown below, as well as the percentage of the votes and of the shares, in the event all prospective founding states become parties, and no other members are accepted.

Country (Region) Prospective Founding
Member status		 Signature
(Articles)[37]		 Ratification
(Articles)[37]		 Shares[2] % of shares[lower-alpha 1][40] % of vote[lower-alpha 1][40][41]
 Australia 3 April 2015[42]29 June 201510 November 2015 36,912 3.76 3.46
 Austria 11 April 2015[43]29 June 20153 December 2015 5,008 0.51 0.70
 Azerbaijan 15 April 2015[44] 29 June 2015 2,541 0.26 0.48
 Bangladesh[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 2015 22 March 2016 6,605 0.67 0.83
 Brazil 12 April 2015[45]29 June 2015 31,810 3.24 3.02
 Brunei[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 2015 12 October 2015 524 0.05 0.31
 Cambodia[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 2015 623 0.06 0.32
 China[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 2015 26 November 2015 297,804 30.34 26.06
 Denmark 12 April 2015[45] 27 October 2015 14 January 20163,695 0.38 0.58
 Egypt 14 April 2015[46]29 June 2015 6,505 0.66 0.83
 Finland 12 April 2015[45]29 June 2015 7 January 2016 3,1030.320.53
 France 2 April 2015[47]29 June 2015 33,756 3.44 3.19
 Georgia 12 April 2015[45]29 June 201514 December 2015 539 0.05 0.31
 Germany 1 April 2015[48]29 June 201521 December 2015 44,842 4.57 4.15
 Iceland 15 April 2015[44]29 June 20154 March 2016 176 0.02 0.28
 India[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 201511 January 2016 83,673 8.52 7.51
 Indonesia[lower-alpha 2] 25 November 2014[20]29 June 201514 January 2016 33,607 3.42 3.17
 Iran 7 April 2015[49]29 June 2015 15,808 1.61 1.63
 Israel 15 April 2015[44]29 June 2015 15 January 2016 7,499 0.76 0.91
 Italy 2 April 2015[47]29 June 2015 25,718 2.62 2.49
 Jordan 7 February 201529 June 201525 December 2015 1,192 0.120.37
 Kazakhstan[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 2015 7,293 0.74 0.89
 South Korea 11 April 2015[43]29 June 2015 11 December 2015 37,388 3.81 3.50
 Kuwait 24 October 20144 December 2015 5,3600.550.73
 Kyrgyzstan 9 April 2015[50]29 June 2015 2680.030.29
 Laos[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 201515 January 2016 4300.040.30
 Luxembourg 27 March 2015[51]29 June 20159 December 2015 6970.070.32
 Malaysia 24 October 201421 August 2015[52] 1,0950.110.36
 Maldives 31 December 2014[53]29 June 20154 January 2016 720.010.27
 Malta 9 April 2015[50]29 June 2015 7 January 2016 1360.010.27
 Mongolia[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 201527 November 2015 4110.040.30
 Myanmar[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 2015 1 July 201526450.270.49
   Nepal[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 201513 January 2016 8090.080.33
 Netherlands 12 April 2015[45]29 June 201516 December 2015 10,313 1.05 1.16
 New Zealand 5 January 2015[54] 29 June 2015 9 December 2015[55] 4,6150.470.66
 Norway 14 April 2015[46]29 June 201522 December 2015 5,5060.560.74
 Oman[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 2015 2,5920.260.49
 Pakistan[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 2015 22 December 2015 10,341 1.05 1.16
 Philippines 24 October 2014 31 December 2015 9,791 1.00 1.11
 Poland 15 April 2015[44]9 October 2015 20 April 2016 [56] 8,318 0.85 0.98
 Portugal 15 April 2015[44]29 June 2015 6500.070.32
 Qatar[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 2015 6,044 0.62 0.79
 Russia 14 April 2015[57]29 June 201528 December 2015 65,362 6.66 5.93
 Saudi Arabia 13 January 2015[58]29 June 2015 19 February 2016 25,446 2.59 2.47
 Singapore[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 2014[59]29 June 201510 September 2015 2,5000.250.48
 South Africa 15 April 2015[44]3 December 2015 5,905 0.60 0.77
 Spain 11 April 2015[43]29 June 2015 17,615 1.79 1.79
 Sri Lanka[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 2015 2,6900.270.50
 Sweden 15 April 2015[44]29 June 2015 6,300 0.64 0.81
  Switzerland 28 March 2015[60]29 June 2015 7,064 0.72 0.87
 Tajikistan 13 January 2015[58]29 June 201516 January 2016 3090.030.29
 Thailand 24 October 2014[59]1 October 2015 14,275 1.45 1.50
 Turkey 10 April 2015[61]29 June 2015 15 January 2016 26,099 2.66 2.52
 United Arab Emirates 5 April 2015[62]29 June 2015 15 January 2016 11,857 1.21 1.29
 United Kingdom 28 March 2015[60]29 June 2015 3 December 2015 30,547 3.11 2.91
 Uzbekistan[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 2015 2,1980.220.45
 Vietnam[lower-alpha 2] 24 October 201429 June 2015 6,633 0.68 0.84
Unallocated Shares 18,486 – –
Grand Total 57
37 Regional
20 non-Regional 		57
100.00% of shares 		33
77.50% of shares 		1,000,000 100.00 100.00
  Regional members

Non prospective founding members

Of the states without Prospective Founding Member status, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic,[63] Hungary, Taiwan and Ukraine are considering joining the AIIB as members. Colombia, Japan and the United States have no immediate intention to participate. Taiwan,[64] and according to Emergingmarkets.com, North Korea[65] had their request to become a Prospective Founding Member rejected by China.

Dependent territories

The Articles of Agreement provide for non-sovereign entities to become members of the bank. In addition to the requirements for sovereign states, the membership of dependent territories must be supported by the state responsible for its external relations.

Other states

United States United States – No commitment

Japan Japan – "Under Consideration" / No commitment

Shareholding structure

The Authorized Capital Stock of the bank is 100 billion US Dollars, divided into 1 million shares of 100 000 dollars each. Twenty percent are paid-in shares (and thus have to be transferred to the bank), and 80% are callable shares.[2] The allocated shares are based on the size of each member country's economy (calculated using GDP Nominal (60%) and GDP PPP (40%)), whether they are an Asian or Non-Asian Member, and the number of shares determines the fraction of authorized capital in the bank.[5][76][77][78] Of the prospective founding members, three states decided not to subscribe to all allocated shares: Malaysia, Portugal and Singapore,[41] resulting in 98% of available shares to be subscribed.[2]

Three categories of votes exist: basic votes, share votes and Founding Member votes. The basic votes are equal for all members and constitute 12% of the total votes, while the share votes are equal to the number of shares. Each Founding Member furthermore gets 600 votes. An overview of the shares, assuming when all 57 Prospective Founding Members have become Founding Members is shown below (values in bold do not depend on the number of members):[40]

Vote Type % of Total Votes Total Votes Vote per Member China
(Largest PFM)		Maldives
(Smallest PFM)
Basic votes 12 138,510 2,430 2,430 2,430
Share votes 85 981,514 Varies 297,80472
Founding Member votes 3 34,200 600 600 600
Total 100 1,154,224 varies 300,834 (26.1%)3,102 (0.3%)

Governance

The bank's governance structure is composed of the Board of Governors[79] as the top-level and highest decision-making body.[80] It is composed of 1 governor for each member state of the bank and in principle meets once a year.[80] The board of directors, composed of 12 governors, each representing one or more member is responsible for daily operations and tasks delegated to it by the board of governors. Nine of those members are from within the Asia-Pacific region and three representing members outside the region.[80]

Of the non-regional directors, 1 constituency is made up of EU member states having the Euro as their currency, and 1 from other European countries.[81]

An overview of the constituencies is shown below[82]

Participants[lower-alpha 3] Prospective Participants [lower-alpha 1]
Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Kuwait, Oman, Qatar
Maldives, Nepal Bangladesh, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand
Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar Sri Lanka
Australia, New Zealand, Singapore Cambodia, Vietnam
Russia, Tajikistan Iran, Kazakhstan
India —
Israel, South Korea, Mongolia Uzbekistan
Brunei, Georgia, Pakistan, Turkey Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan
China —
Austria, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands France, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom Iceland Poland, Sweden, Switzerland
— Brazil, Egypt, South Africa

Reception

The President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, has said that the need for infrastructure in developing countries is great so that the activities of new organizations would be welcome.[83]

Geopolitical implication in Asia and beyond

Think-tanks such as Chatham House, the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and the World Pensions Council (WPC) have argued that the successful establishment of a new supranational financial powerhouse headquartered in PRC would be facilitated by the fact that “the UK seemingly broke from the G7 pack and announced it would join the AIIB. France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Russia, South Korea and Israel soon followed suit – with only Washington and Tokyo remaining outside the new multilateral bank.”[84][85]

These experts observe that the establishment of the Beijing-based AIIB “needn’t trigger vain geopolitical rivalries. China and the West can work successfully together to build a more prosperous, equitable economic order across the Asia-Pacific region”[84] and that the decision by the UK to “join the China-instigated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank […] shows overdue strategic clarity, and awareness among the political establishment that foreign policy towards China should aim to advance the national interest rather than placate Britain’s other allies” [85]

Environmental record

As the proposed bank has no management or approved loans, it has no environmental record. Several organisations have however expressed their concerns over environmental policy of the proposed bank because of the high stake of China in the bank's business. Although the proposed bank declared "AIIB will learn from the best practice in the world and adopt international standards of environmental protection," Oxford scholar of economics and energy policy Yuge Ma has argued that this may be complicated in developing Asian countries.[86]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 For the situation that all 57 prospective member states ratify and no new members are admitted
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Signatories of the Memorandum of Understanding
  3. ↑ In Bold the country supplying the director for the constituency

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