China's Development Finance

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Banking on the Belt and Road: Insights from a new global dataset of 13,427 Chinese development projects

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Discourse Wars and ‘Mask Diplomacy’: China’s Global Image Management in Times of Crisis

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Mask Wars: China's Exports of Medical Goods in Times of COVID-19

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Chinese Aid and Local Employment in Africa

Shiqi Guo, Haicheng Jiang

June 2, 2021

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Does Decentralization Promote Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Kenya’s Constituencies Development Fund

J. Andrew Harris, Daniel N. Posner

March 29, 2021

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