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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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News
United States pledges to help Indo-Pacific countries build better infrastructure
Entebbe Airport gone or not?
Kenya paid China Sh29bn to ease debt repayment standoff
China faces pushback on BRI initiatives
China's failure is Europe's opportunity; 300 billion euros for the Balkans and Africa
Laos to open Chinese-built railway amid fears of Beijing’s influence
Laos-China railway to launch as debt to Beijing mounts
Debt-trapped: Sri Lanka, Laos, and now Uganda?
China’s BRI Lending: $385 Billion in ‘Hidden Debts’
African nations mend and make do as China tightens Belt and Road
Africa's Rising Cities: How Africa will become the center of the world's urban future
Transcript: David Malpass on "Face the Nation," November 14, 2021
Stalled Dreams: With debts unpaid and Ethiopia on the brink of collapse, China's decades-old Africa strategy may be starting to change
Understanding China's BRI Impact
China and Africa—Is it the end of the honeymoon period?
How BRI Debt Puts China at Risk
Exposing China’s investment strategy
The World Bank as a Cash-Transfer Algorithm
Covid crisis finally catches up with Laos
China büsst in Afrika an Kredit ein; Empörung wegen Corona
Pacific Nations Have an Interest in Challenging China’s Expansive Maritime Claims
Hidden China debts come to the fore in Indonesia
China wants to dominate the global electric vehicle market – and it’s using Congolese minerals to do it
Morning Joe: Behind China's massive belt and road initiative
The new Great Game: Central Asia struggles to balance three powers
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