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As Latin America shifts toward China, AidData research examines Beijing’s growing influence
Mapping China’s COVID-19 aid footprint
Chancay port opens as China’s gateway to South America
Amidst rising tensions, Beijing bets big in the Philippines
Extending AidData’s global reach and impact through a new training initiative
AidData launches new Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset
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
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Why hide? Africa’s unreported debt to China
Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival
Tracking Chinese Development Finance: An Application of AidData’s TUFF 3.0 Methodology
Belt and Road Reboot: Beijing’s Bid to De-Risk Its Global Infrastructure Initiative
Chinese aid and health at the country and local level
The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa
Chinese health funding in Africa: The untold story
Harboring Global Ambitions: China's Ports Footprint and Implications for Future Overseas Naval Bases
Debt Distress on China’s Belt and Road
China as an International Lender of Last Resort
How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments
Delivering the Belt and Road: Decoding the supply of and demand for Chinese overseas development projects
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Datasets
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
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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
Sri Lanka's Economy on Life Support: Causes, Lessons, and Solutions
How to build a data-driven public service: Inclusive data practices
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"Highlights in China's Development Spending "
China’s Global Development Spending
How Democracy Can Win: The Right Way to Counter Autocracy
China's Checkbook Diplomacy Has Bounced
How India’s Belt-Road Initiative snub proved prophetic
China’s Belt and Road to Nowhere
What does China’s reopening mean for Latin America?
Ambition, concern drive Lao-China high-speed rail project
Sri Lanka Is Calm Again. That Doesn’t Mean Things Are Any Better.
China’s Global Mega-Projects Are Falling Apart
Pakistan taps Chinese credit for railway upgrade despite debt crisis
China Props Up Belt-and-Road Borrowers Via Unusual Channel
China lends billions to poor countries. Is that a burden ... or a blessing?
Laos' debt pressure raises specter of a China vassal state
Debt of emerging countries: China in the dock
Kenya’s $3.8 Billion Chinese-Built Railway Shows Why Belt and Road Is Being Reworked
« Nouvelles routes de la soie » : comment le chantier du siècle de la Chine s’est enlisé
India’s plan to take on China as south Asia’s favourite lender
Hundreds in Shanghai demand China leader resignation
Errant Remark on China Rescuing El Salvador Shows Pressure on Xi
South Asia Is Missing out on the Clean Energy Transition
Pakistan PM Sharif's China trip brings 'more words, little action'
Africa needs more help with its Chinese debts
Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict: Truce agreed
Chinese foreign development aims and impact — Brad Parks on "Intelligence Matters"
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