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ThE First Tranche Blog

Chancay port opens as China’s gateway to South America

2024-11-14

Chancay megaport in Peru while under construction. Photo by rjankovsky via Adobe Stock, used under the Standard license.

Peru’s new megaport is poised to transform global trade—but China’s portfolio stretches far beyond the port.

A workshop participant uses the AidData dashboard to track and analyze Chinese development finance and relationships in the Philippines over time, by sector, and geography. Photo by Glimpse, commissioned by Asia Society Philippines, used here with permission.
ThE First Tranche Blog

Workshop series explores Chinese investments and media in Philippines

2024-10-28

Ubaldo Trochez stands in his irrigated coffee field in Honduras. The EU has passed new deforestation regulations that coffee growers, including small-scale producers like Ubaldo, will need to follow to export their coffee to the EU. Photo by USAID via Flickr, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
ThE First Tranche Blog

Innovative research aims to revolutionize deforestation compliance in coffee production

2024-10-03

Investing in Narratives: How Beijing promotes its development projects in the Philippines

Policy Report

Investing in Narratives: How Beijing promotes its development projects in the Philippines

Spatiotemporal Prediction of Conflict Fatality Risk Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Satellite Imagery

Journal Article

Spatiotemporal Prediction of Conflict Fatality Risk Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Satellite Imagery

AidData’s Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset

Journal Article

AidData’s Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset

About AidData

We use rigorous methods, cutting-edge tools, and granular data on international development to answer the question: who is doing what, where, for whom, and to what effect?

AidData's Research In the News

The Chinese Base That Isn’t There

The New York Times

Mobilizing Clean Energy Financing through the Multilateral Development Banks

Council on Foreign Relations

A New Chinese Megaport in South America Is Rattling the U.S.

The Wall Street Journal

China emerges as one of biggest bilateral lenders to Philippines

The Financial Times

New Working Papers

Working Paper #
132

China’s Foreign Investments: Hedges Against Policy Uncertainty

Timothy R. McDade

October 20, 2024

Working Paper #
131

Foreign Aid and Power Play: Political Cycles in World Bank’s Procurement Allocation

Antoine Boucher, Lisa Chauvet, Marin Ferry

October 4, 2024

Working Paper #

Shifting political influence? UN General Assembly behavior during debt crisis

Martin C. Steinwand

September 30, 2024

Programs

China’s Global Engagement

Systematically tracking China's portfolio of overseas investments and soft power activities

Foreign Policy Influence

Quantifying the economic and soft power tools of China, Russia, and the United States

Gender Equity in Development

Innovation in research to reduce gender bias in development

GeoQuery

Enabling the next generation of geospatial analysis

Geospatial Tools and Impact Evaluations

Innovation and rigor to measure impact more effectively

Listening to Leaders

Perspectives of leaders in low- and middle-income countries