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Home / In the News / Media Article

2018-09-27

China is offering ‘no strings attached aid’ to Africa. Here’s what that means.

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Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance

2014-11-01

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Geocoded China Data

AidData's Chinese Official Finance to Africa Dataset, 2000-2012, Version 1.1.1

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.

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November 26, 2014

Diving into the Details: What “Aid on Demand” Says and Doesn’t Say About China in Africa

We're delighted to see that the paper provoked a fair amount of media coverage and debate among scholars. However, a lack of familiarity with the data, methods, and findings has led to inaccurate reporting and confusion. We’d like to briefly clarify several matters of fact.

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