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Competing visions for the Indian Ocean: China’s influence in South and Central Asia
Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program
How we constructed the world’s largest dataset on China’s overseas spending
Global insights with national implications: AidData’s policy engagements on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
AidData publishes a controversial $200m Chinese loan contract for Uganda’s main airport
Call for Papers—Separating fact from fiction: China’s growing global influence and its implications
AidData’s new dataset of 13,427 Chinese development projects worth $843 billion reveals major increase in ‘hidden debt’ and Belt and Road Initiative implementation problems
TUFF Cookies: Students aim for policy impact through hard-hitting research, part one
TUFF Cookies: Students aim for policy impact through hard-hitting research, part two
New study shines a light on Beijing’s secretive international lending program
AidData wins two-year Ford Foundation grant to close the evidence gap on China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Chinese infrastructure investments shift economic activity, reduce spatial inequalities, finds new paper
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Competing with the Belt and Road 2.0
What China’s Economic Slowdown Means for Key Countries: Case Studies
How China Lends 2.0: Introducing an extended dataset of 371 debt contracts
How China Collateralizes
Balancing Risk and Reward: Who benefits from China's investments in Indonesia?
Aid Projects and Firm Performance
Uncovering African Leaders’ Perceptions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
PRC Influence and the Status of Taiwan's Diplomatic Allies in the Western Hemisphere
Winning Hearts, Changing Minds: A Data-Driven Approach to Measure China's Influence in Latin America
Into the Breach: Will China Step Up as the U.S. Retreats on Global Development?
Foreign Aid and Conflict: What We Know and Need to Know
Sicomines Copper-Cobalt Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
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AidData's Geocoded Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset, Version 1.1.1
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Competing with the Belt and Road 2.0
China’s Expanding Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean
Landmine Clearance and Economic Development: Evidence from Nighttime Lights, Multispectral Satellite Imagery, and Conflict Events in Afghanistan
Understanding the PRC's approach to public diplomacy
Tracking the Cross-Border Lending Activities of the World's Largest Official Creditor
PRC Influence and the Status of Taiwan's Diplomatic Allies in the Western Hemisphere
Virtual Briefing on "Balancing Risk and Reward"
Data Journalism Training on Global Development Finance
U.S.-China Relations in 2025: Trade, Economy, and Looking to the Future
How Can Indo-Pacific Countries Bargain for Better Deals with Development Partners?
Investing in Tanzania's People | Kuwekeza kwa Watu wa Tanzania
China's AI Exports: Implications for Asia and Africa (RAND)
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China’s BRI Lending: $385 Billion in ‘Hidden Debts’
African nations mend and make do as China tightens Belt and Road
Africa's Rising Cities: How Africa will become the center of the world's urban future
Transcript: David Malpass on "Face the Nation," November 14, 2021
Stalled Dreams: With debts unpaid and Ethiopia on the brink of collapse, China's decades-old Africa strategy may be starting to change
Understanding China's BRI Impact
China and Africa—Is it the end of the honeymoon period?
How BRI Debt Puts China at Risk
Exposing China’s investment strategy
The World Bank as a Cash-Transfer Algorithm
Covid crisis finally catches up with Laos
China büsst in Afrika an Kredit ein; Empörung wegen Corona
Pacific Nations Have an Interest in Challenging China’s Expansive Maritime Claims
Hidden China debts come to the fore in Indonesia
China wants to dominate the global electric vehicle market – and it’s using Congolese minerals to do it
Morning Joe: Behind China's massive belt and road initiative
The new Great Game: Central Asia struggles to balance three powers
Pakistan got its way in Afghanistan. Now what?
Are Chinese loans still a good deal for Africa?
Chine-Afrique : qui a bénéficié des 40 milliards de dollars de la « dette cachée » ?
طريق الحرير وأشواك الدين الخفي
China's massive infrastructure initiative across Asia, Europe and Africa hits snags
In 10 charts: How China has saddled poor nations with massive debt, 'buyers' remorse'
中国“一带一路”:协助发展或放高利贷?
Transparency needed
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