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New global dashboard and datasets on China's public diplomacy worldwide

China's Global Public Diplomacy Dashboard → Global Indicators Dataset v1.6

The First Tranche Blog

As budgets shrink, study finds little evidence aid is directed to the worst-off

2022-09-30

Conventional wisdom is that scarcity shifts aid resources to needier places, but a new study finds this isn’t the case.

The First Tranche Blog

AidData-led project awarded nearly $4.75 million for agriculture and climate research

2022-09-14

The First Tranche Blog

Beyond saving lives, landmine removal in Afghanistan clears path to development, study finds

2022-08-22

Policy Brief

China’s influence in South and Central Asia: Competition in the Indian Ocean and China’s engagement with Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Policy Report

Corridors of Power: How Beijing uses economic, social, and network ties to exert influence along the Silk Road

Book

Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program

New Working Papers

Working Paper #

120

Why Hide? Africa’s Unreported Debt to China

Kathleen Brown

August 31, 2022

Working Paper #

119

Dueling Aid Regimes: A Conjoint Survey Experiment on Elites’ Development Finance Preferences in 141 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Robert A. Blair, Samantha Custer, Philip Roessler

July 25, 2022

Working Paper #

118

IMF Programs, Chinese Lending, and the Political Economy of Leader Survival

Andreas Kern, Bernhard Reinsberg, Patrick E. Shea

Chinese Development Finance

GeoQuery

Creating next-generation measurements of development outcomes, powerful tools for filtering and aggregating spatial data, and new geostatistical analysis and machine learning methods.

Geospatial Impact Evaluations

Rigorously evaluating the impacts and cost-effectiveness of specific development interventions and large investment portfolios with spatial data.

Listening to Leaders

Understanding the perspectives of leaders in low- and middle-income countries by collecting 360 degree feedback on development priorities, progress, and donor performance.

Transparent Development Finance

Tracking underreported financial flows from opaque donors, lenders, and investors who publicly disclose little about their spending priorities and activities.

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New global dashboard and datasets on China's public diplomacy worldwide

As budgets shrink, study finds little evidence aid is directed to the worst-off

AidData-led project awarded nearly $4.75 million for agriculture and climate research

Beyond saving lives, landmine removal in Afghanistan clears path to development, study finds

Policy Brief

Policy Report

Book

New Working Papers

August 31, 2022

July 25, 2022

April 27, 2022

AidData's Research In the News

Asia's ticking debt bomb: Sri Lanka crisis sounds alarm bells across region

US Asks Pakistan to Seek Debt Relief from China After Floods

Debt Defaults Are a Stress Test for China’s Soft Power Strategy

China Reins In Its Belt and Road Program, $1 Trillion Later

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