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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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Publications
Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance
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
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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
Events
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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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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