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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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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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Factbox: China-Russia trade has surged as countries grow closer
China ready to soften economic blow to Russia from Ukraine sanctions
China rejects accusations it is setting 'debt traps' all around the Pacific
How Chinese firms have dominated African infrastructure
Nigeria looks to Europe for funding as Chinese lenders move away from costly projects in Africa
Pekings harte Schuldenpolitik – Entwicklungsländern droht ein verlorenes Jahrzehnt
Pékin-Moscou, l’axe anti-occidental
Argentina’s IMF deal offers a warning on emerging market debt
Secret contracts show how China structures loans to become Africa’s “preferred” lender
China applies brakes to Africa lending
China: Is it burdening poor countries with unsustainable debt?
Uganda Finds China’s Leverage Is in the Fine Print of Its Lending
2022中国经济展望: “5时代”元年的机会与风险
Indonesia breaks ground on China-backed 'green' industrial zone on Borneo
Laos opens scenic railway built on a mountain of Chinese debt
Why China Is In Africa - If You Don’t Know, Now You Know
United States pledges to help Indo-Pacific countries build better infrastructure
Entebbe Airport gone or not?
Kenya paid China Sh29bn to ease debt repayment standoff
China faces pushback on BRI initiatives
China's failure is Europe's opportunity; 300 billion euros for the Balkans and Africa
Laos to open Chinese-built railway amid fears of Beijing’s influence
Laos-China railway to launch as debt to Beijing mounts
Debt-trapped: Sri Lanka, Laos, and now Uganda?
China’s BRI Lending: $385 Billion in ‘Hidden Debts’
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