Geocoded China Data
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.
Metadata
Version
Version 1.1.1
(Most Current Version)
(Most Current Geocoded Version)
Methodology
Geocoded
SDG Coded
Natural Resource Concessions
TUFF
Survey Results
Specifications
File Size:
Publication Date:
Jan 2017
Starting Year:
2000
Ending Year:
2012
Number of Entries:
1,952
Total Amount Tracked:
Currency:
2009 USD
Full Description
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. In order to build this dataset, AidData applied its double-blind geocoding methodology to the 1.1 (static research release) version of its Chinese Official Finance to Africa Dataset.