Chinese Development Cooperation in Africa

AidData's Chinese Official Finance to Africa Dataset, 2000-2012, Version 1.1

Summary

Official Citation

Strange, Austin, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, and Vijaya Ramachandran. April 2013. China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection. Working Paper 323. Washington D.C.: Center for Global Development

Date Published

April 15, 2013

Full Description

The 1.1 version of AidData's Chinese Official Finance to Africa dataset tracks 1,955 development finance activities in Africa from 2000 to 2012. The data includes both Chinese aid and non-concessional official financing. The dataset was generated using a novel, open-source data collection methodology—Tracking Underreported Financial Flows, or TUFF—which triangulates project information across a range of data sources including media reports, Aid Information Management Systems, scholarly articles and recipient or provider ministry websites. For the full methodology, please see AidData's TUFF Methodology, Version 1.2.

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