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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
TUFF Cookies: Students aim for policy impact through hard-hitting research, part two
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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African nations mend and make do as China tightens Belt and Road
Africa's Rising Cities: How Africa will become the center of the world's urban future
Transcript: David Malpass on "Face the Nation," November 14, 2021
Stalled Dreams: With debts unpaid and Ethiopia on the brink of collapse, China's decades-old Africa strategy may be starting to change
Understanding China's BRI Impact
China and Africa—Is it the end of the honeymoon period?
How BRI Debt Puts China at Risk
Exposing China’s investment strategy
The World Bank as a Cash-Transfer Algorithm
Covid crisis finally catches up with Laos
China büsst in Afrika an Kredit ein; Empörung wegen Corona
Pacific Nations Have an Interest in Challenging China’s Expansive Maritime Claims
Hidden China debts come to the fore in Indonesia
China wants to dominate the global electric vehicle market – and it’s using Congolese minerals to do it
Morning Joe: Behind China's massive belt and road initiative
The new Great Game: Central Asia struggles to balance three powers
Pakistan got its way in Afghanistan. Now what?
Are Chinese loans still a good deal for Africa?
Chine-Afrique : qui a bénéficié des 40 milliards de dollars de la « dette cachée » ?
طريق الحرير وأشواك الدين الخفي
China's massive infrastructure initiative across Asia, Europe and Africa hits snags
In 10 charts: How China has saddled poor nations with massive debt, 'buyers' remorse'
中国“一带一路”:协助发展或放高利贷?
Transparency needed
A new report digs into China’s labyrinthine foreign loans
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