AidData — A Research Lab at William & Mary

Separating fact from fiction: China's growing global influence and its implications

2022-06-22

‍William & Mary’s inaugural 2022 China Convening gathers a diverse group of global leaders to stimulate evidence-informed dialogue on China.

The First Tranche Blog

How China’s lending activities affect the political survival of leaders

2022-05-16

The First Tranche Blog

Competing visions for the Indian Ocean: China’s influence in South and Central Asia

2022-05-12

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 #

118

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

Andreas Kern, Bernhard Reinsberg, Patrick E. Shea

April 27, 2022

Working Paper #

117

Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance

Lukas Wellner, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C. Parks, Austin Strange

April 5, 2022

Working Paper #

116

What politicians don’t know can hurt you: The effects of information on politicians’ spending decisions

Ryan Jablonski, Brigitte Seim

March 31, 2022

AidData's Research In the News

The price of friendship

The Economist

The Chinese-African relationship is important to both sides, but also unbalanced

The Economist

Chinese loans and investment in infrastructure have been huge

The Economist

Op-ed: The four big threats to China’s economy

CNBC

About AidData

We use rigorous methods, cutting-edge tools, and granular data on international development to answer the question: who is doing what, where, for whom, and to what effect?

Programs

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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