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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
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
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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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Is Beijing a predatory lender? New evidence from a previously undisclosed loan contract for the Entebbe International Airport Upgrading and Expansion Project
Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level
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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
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How to Measure Development Outcomes Using Geospatial Data for Impact Evaluation
Ties That Bind: Chinese Public Diplomacy in East Asia and the Pacific
Influencing the Narrative: Beijing's Public Diplomacy in East Asia & the Pacific
Silk Road Diplomacy: Deconstructing Beijing's Toolkit to Influence South and Central Asia
Beyond the #TyrannyOfAverages: Are we worsening inequality within countries?
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The Chinese Base That Isn’t There
Mobilizing Clean Energy Financing through the Multilateral Development Banks
A New Chinese Megaport in South America Is Rattling the U.S.
China emerges as one of biggest bilateral lenders to Philippines
Post-COVID, China is back in Africa and doubling down on minerals
China Is Winning the Minerals War
Three years after the US exit, Afghanistan still needs our help
Management of Panama Canal ports by Hong Kong firm poses risks, US House panel hears
How the Humble Donkey Became a Big Problem for China
Who’s the big boss of the global south?
Angola agrees deal with Chinese state bank to ease debt crunch
A revival of the IMEC idea amid choppy geopolitics
Base instincts: Chinese naval growth and global events highlight need for overseas bases
Hungary and Serbia’s autocratic leaders to roll out red carpet for China’s Xi during Europe tour
China’s financial clout will be hard to reverse
Africa is juggling rival powers like no other continent
US, China Fight for One Pacific Nation Mirrors a Regional Battle
Debt Trap, Infrastructure Wars, and US-China Competition
China Turns the Tables on Wall Street
The World’s Poorest Countries Buckle Under $3.5 Trillion in Debt
China Isn’t Winning the War for Hearts and Minds
Italy to withdraw from China’s belt and road initiative, say sources
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China's Current Account Surplus Is Likely Much Bigger Than Reported
David Cameron’s backing of Beijing-funded development raises questions over business dealings
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