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Banking on the Belt and Road: Insights from a new global dataset of 13,427 Chinese development projects

2021-09-29

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AidData’s Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 2.0

This uniquely granular dataset captures 13,427 development projects worth $843 billion financed by more than 300 Chinese government institutions and state-owned entities across 165 countries in every major region of the world from 2000-2017.

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September 29, 2021

AidData’s new dataset of 13,427 Chinese development projects worth $843 billion reveals major increase in ‘hidden debt’ and Belt and Road Initiative implementation problems

The analysis, based on a massive new dataset four years in the making, includes a special focus on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).