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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
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
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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
Events
Investing in Tanzania's People | Kuwekeza kwa Watu wa Tanzania
China's AI Exports: Implications for Asia and Africa (RAND)
Gates Forum 2 Keynote: U.S. Foreign Aid and the Exercise of Power
GeoField Convening: Leveraging earth observation for impact evaluations of climate-sensitive agriculture
Harnessing the Power of a New Toolkit for Rapid, Rigorous Evaluations and Better Public Policy
The Belt and Road's Impact on Partner States
Evaluating Gender Bias in AI Applications: Dissemination Workshop
America’s Role in the World 2023
Geospatial Data and Analysis for Monitoring and Evaluation
China’s Future Naval Bases: New Empirical Data Points to Likely Places
The Implications of “Peak China” for the Belt and Road Initiative?
Risk and resilience in the face of Russian interference in Europe & Eurasia
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China Is Playing Hardball with Troubled Debtors. That’s Dangerous for All of Us.
Renewables in the mix for Japan’s financing of African development
China reckons with its first overseas debt crisis
Analysis: China casts giant shadow over emerging nations' chase for debt relief
Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis Tests China’s Role as Financier to Poor Countries
Global Investors Dump Bonds of Chinese Banks That Lent Heavily to Russia
G7's $600B infrastructure bid to counter China
China-Uganda loan deal for Entebbe Airport is binding: MPs
The Myth of the Chinese Debt Trap in Africa
China’s overseas lending and the war in Ukraine
Report casts doubt on Chinese debt-trap threat to Kenya’s Mombasa port
Nepal’s economic woes, following Sri Lanka’s crisis, turn up the heat on China’s belt and road loans
Op-ed: The four big threats to China’s economy
China funnels its overseas aid money into political leaders’ home provinces
Chinese loans and investment in infrastructure have been huge
The Chinese-African relationship is important to both sides, but also unbalanced
The price of friendship
China Exim Bank’s Controversial Loan to Expand Uganda’s Entebbe Airport
Systematic underreporting of public debt statistics: 50 years of evidence and recent progress
Moscow’s Shadow Dogged China’s Economic Links to Ukraine
The Russo-Ukrainian Warfare: What went wrong?
Is Uganda’s Entebbe airport at risk of seizure by China?
How China can help Russia survive economic sanctions
Chinese lenders squeeze African borrowers even harder
China puts 'aggressive' terms on Entebbe airport loan: researchers
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