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Young minds, global insights: The student experience on AidData’s TUFF Team
AidData and RAND release new dataset, report on China’s AI exports
Belt and Road bounces back, as Beijing seeks to future-proof its flagship global infrastructure initiative
AidData’s China data wins 2023 Best Dataset Award from IPES
How far can the BRI take China? AidData authors examine one possible geopolitical gain: naval ports
“一带一路”救助贷款达到创纪录水平,引发对中国旗舰全球基础设施计划前途的质疑
Belt and Road bailout lending reaches record levels, raising questions about the future of China’s flagship global infrastructure program
AidData wins grant from the Ford Foundation to track latest trends in China’s overseas development program
W&M hosts inaugural conference on China’s global influence
Competing visions for the Indian Ocean: China’s influence in South and Central Asia
Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program
How we constructed the world’s largest dataset on China’s overseas spending
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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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China's hidden foreign lending
Hidden Debt Plagues China’s Belt and Road Infrastructure Plan, Studies Find
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