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Blog Posts
Global insights with national implications: AidData’s policy engagements on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
AidData publishes a controversial $200m Chinese loan contract for Uganda’s main airport
Call for Papers—Separating fact from fiction: China’s growing global influence and its implications
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
TUFF Cookies: Students aim for policy impact through hard-hitting research, part one
TUFF Cookies: Students aim for policy impact through hard-hitting research, part two
New study shines a light on Beijing’s secretive international lending program
AidData wins two-year Ford Foundation grant to close the evidence gap on China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Chinese infrastructure investments shift economic activity, reduce spatial inequalities, finds new paper
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Publications
Uncovering African Leaders’ Perceptions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Winning Hearts, Changing Minds: A Data-Driven Approach to Measure China's Influence in Latin America
Into the Breach: Will China Step Up as the U.S. Retreats on Global Development?
Foreign Aid and Conflict: What We Know and Need to Know
Sicomines Copper-Cobalt Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Las Bambas Copper Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Kinsenda Copper Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Toromocho Copper Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Tenke Fungurume Copper-Cobalt Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Tracking China’s Transition Mineral Financing: Methodology and Approach, Version 1.0
Power Playbook: Beijing’s Bid to Secure Overseas Transition Minerals
Exporting the Tools of Dictatorship: The Politics of China’s Technology Transfers
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Datasets
AidData's Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals Dataset, Version 1.0
Beijing’s Big Bet on the Philippines: Decoding two decades of China’s financing for development, Version 1.0
China’s AI Exports Database (CAIED)
AidData's Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0
AidData's Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0
BRI-Tagged Chinese Official Finance Dataset, Version 1.0
China's Official Seaport Finance Dataset, 2000-2021
China as an International Lender of Last Resort Dataset, Version 1.0.1
AidData’s Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 2.0
AidData's Geocoded Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset, Version 1.1.1
Events
The Implications of “Peak China” for the Belt and Road Initiative?
Risk and resilience in the face of Russian interference in Europe & Eurasia
Data innovation in conflict zones: Collecting and utilizing data to guide climate resilience and security policy in Afghanistan
Reputational Security: The Imperative To Reinvest In U.S. Strategic Communications Capabilities
Launch of the 2023 Development Co-operation Report, "Debating the Aid System"
Cooperation Amid Crisis: How Can Multilateral Organizations Position Themselves to Help Countries Mitigate and Manage Shocks?
Imagining a Dynamic Policy for Gender Mainstreaming in Pakistan
Pakistonomy: Understanding China's BRI Impact
China in East Africa: Lessons for The Developing World
China Research Group: Banking on the Belt and Road
2022 Global Development Forum: Global Disruptions in International Development
America's Role in the World: International Development in an Era of Great Power Competition
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The price of friendship
China Exim Bank’s Controversial Loan to Expand Uganda’s Entebbe Airport
Systematic underreporting of public debt statistics: 50 years of evidence and recent progress
Moscow’s Shadow Dogged China’s Economic Links to Ukraine
The Russo-Ukrainian Warfare: What went wrong?
Is Uganda’s Entebbe airport at risk of seizure by China?
How China can help Russia survive economic sanctions
Chinese lenders squeeze African borrowers even harder
China puts 'aggressive' terms on Entebbe airport loan: researchers
Factbox: China-Russia trade has surged as countries grow closer
China ready to soften economic blow to Russia from Ukraine sanctions
China rejects accusations it is setting 'debt traps' all around the Pacific
How Chinese firms have dominated African infrastructure
Nigeria looks to Europe for funding as Chinese lenders move away from costly projects in Africa
Pekings harte Schuldenpolitik – Entwicklungsländern droht ein verlorenes Jahrzehnt
Pékin-Moscou, l’axe anti-occidental
Argentina’s IMF deal offers a warning on emerging market debt
Secret contracts show how China structures loans to become Africa’s “preferred” lender
China applies brakes to Africa lending
China: Is it burdening poor countries with unsustainable debt?
Uganda Finds China’s Leverage Is in the Fine Print of Its Lending
2022中国经济展望: “5时代”元年的机会与风险
Indonesia breaks ground on China-backed 'green' industrial zone on Borneo
Laos opens scenic railway built on a mountain of Chinese debt
Why China Is In Africa - If You Don’t Know, Now You Know
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