Silk Road Diplomacy: Deconstructing Beijing's toolkit to influence South and Central Asia

Influencing the Narrative: China's public diplomacy in East Asia and Pacific

The First Tranche Blog

How does China’s development model affect state stability in African countries?

2020-01-22

Both World Bank and Chinese aid projects are associated with a reduction in violence against civilians, but regions with Chinese aid see an increase in government repression.

The First Tranche Blog

Beijing's public diplomacy spending in South and Central Asia quantified and evaluated

2019-12-10

The First Tranche Blog

New report, dashboard captures Beijing’s influence in East Asia & the Pacific

2019-12-09

Working Paper #

Comparative Effects of Foreign Direct Investment from China and Other Sources on Africa’s Economic Growth

Marvellous Ngundu, Nicholas Ngepah

Policy Report

Silk Road Diplomacy: Deconstructing Beijing's toolkit to influence South and Central Asia

Policy Report

Influencing the Narrative: How the Chinese government mobilizes students and media to burnish its image

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New Working Papers

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Who gets the goodies? Overlapping interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh

Samuel Brazys, Minhaj Mahmud, Arya Pillai

January 27, 2020

Working Paper #

Target at the Right Level: Aid, Spillovers and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Firat Demir, Yi Duan

January 27, 2020

Working Paper #

The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions

Zareh Asatryan, Annika Havlik

December 2, 2019

Working Paper #

The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa

Zhenqian Huang, Xun Cao

October 15, 2019

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Harnessing the Benefits of Transparency: Street-level Discretion, Targetability, and Local Public Service Delivery

Monika Bauhr, Ruth Carlitz

October 5, 2019

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China and the World Bank: How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States

Kai Gehring, Lennart Kaplan, Melvin H. L. Wong

September 17, 2019

AidData's Research In the News

As China builds up Africa, some in Uganda warn of trouble

Associated Press

The effect of aid is visible from space

Dagens Nyheter

China’s Xi Vows New Direction for ‘Belt and Road’ After Criticism

The Wall Street Journal

The new World Bank head wants some changes. That could backfire.

The Washington Post

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