Geocoded Chinese Projects in Africa
AidData's Chinese Official Finance to Africa Dataset, 2000-2012, Version 1.1.1
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This is a sub-nationally georeferenced dataset of Chinese official finance activities that spans 50 African countries over the 2000-2012 period. It includes 1,952 Chinese development finance projects across 3,545 physical locations.
Official Citation
Strange, Austin M., Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks, and Michael J. Tierney. 2017. Tracking Underreported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid–Conflict Nexus Revisited. Journal of Conflict Resolution 61 (5): 935-963.
Updated in: Dreher, A., Fuchs, A., Hodler, R., Parks, B. C., Raschky, P. A., & Tierney, M.J. (2019). African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance. Journal of Development Economics, 140, 44-71.
*Please note: Both works count as the official citation for this dataset.
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