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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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Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low- and middle-income countries
A Comparative Study of Traditional Donors and Non-traditional Donors in Sri Lanka
Spotlight on PRC Engagement in Honduras Relative to Central America
Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Investing in Narratives: How Beijing promotes its development projects in the Philippines
China’s hidden role in malaria control and elimination in Africa
Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis
AidData’s Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset
Beijing’s Big Bet on the Philippines: Decoding two decades of China’s financing for development
China’s AI Exports: Developing a Tool to Track Chinese Development Finance in the Global South—Technical Documentation
China's AI Exports: Technology Distribution and Data Safety
Highway to the forest? Land governance and the siting and environmental impacts of Chinese government-funded road building in Cambodia
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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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Financing and operations of multilateral development banks: a clients’ perspective
What is behind China's lending abroad?
Xi's New Global Development Initiative
Banking on Beijing: Book Talk with Brad Parks
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Hearing on "China’s Activities and Influence in South and Central Asia"
Corridors of Power Dataset Release
Russia, Ukraine, and the Future of Global Order
Economic Connectivity and Competition in a Multipolar Asia: Institute for Peace & Diplomacy
The China-Global South conference: Mapping China’s political and information influence in the Global South
Talking Point: Central Asia Crossroads, with Samantha Custer & Indian Ambassador Asoke Mukerji
Reimagining Evaluations Through a Geospatial Lens
Banking on China's Belt and Road Initiative: Where does CPEC stand on the global map?
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Adani Plots Expansion of Overseas Port Empire After US Funding
The power of the West’s interdependence with China
US plans to build a $553 million terminal at Sri Lanka’s Colombo port in rivalry with China
China loaned Pakistan $21bn more than reported, study finds
The Chinese yuan is losing value, yet gaining ground
China is revamping its global Belt and Road Initiative
China aims to cut Belt and Road distressed debt exposure, report says
Developing countries owe China at least $1.1 trillion – and the debts are due
China’s Banks and Property Sector Threaten a Growing Economy
China Revamps Overseas Lending as US Narrows Spending Gap
China lent $1.34 trln in 2000-2021, focus shifts from Belt and Road to rescue finance-report
China ‘world’s biggest debt collector’ as poorer nations struggle with its loans
China Is Lending Billions to Countries in Financial Trouble
How China Became the World’s Top Development Financier
Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program
Belt and Road Initiative: Is China's trillion-dollar gamble worth it?
China is celebrating a decade of the Belt and Road Initiative. What is it about?
China Reboots Its Belt and Road Initiative
China’s promise of prosperity brought Laos debt — and distress
China or US: Who's delaying debt relief to developing world
Where next for China’s Belt and Road?
Sri Lanka shows how broken debt negotiations have become
China has poured billions into Africa’s infrastructure. Is it now tightening the tap?
China Faces a Familiar Economic Downturn. But Its Crisis Is Worsened by the War in Ukraine
How China’s Belt and Road Took Over the World
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