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Blog Posts
Young minds, global insights: The student experience on AidData’s TUFF Team
AidData and RAND release new dataset, report on China’s AI exports
Belt and Road bounces back, as Beijing seeks to future-proof its flagship global infrastructure initiative
AidData’s China data wins 2023 Best Dataset Award from IPES
How far can the BRI take China? AidData authors examine one possible geopolitical gain: naval ports
“一带一路”救助贷款达到创纪录水平,引发对中国旗舰全球基础设施计划前途的质疑
Belt and Road bailout lending reaches record levels, raising questions about the future of China’s flagship global infrastructure program
AidData wins grant from the Ford Foundation to track latest trends in China’s overseas development program
W&M hosts inaugural conference on China’s global influence
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
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Publications
Delivering the Belt and Road: Decoding the supply of and demand for Chinese overseas development projects
Why Hide? Africa’s Unreported Debt to China
China’s influence in South and Central Asia: Competition in the Indian Ocean and China’s engagement with Sri Lanka and the Maldives
Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program
IMF Programs, Chinese Lending, and the Political Economy of Leader Survival
Global insights with national implications: AidData’s policy engagements on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Is Beijing a predatory lender? New evidence from a previously undisclosed loan contract for the Entebbe International Airport Upgrading and Expansion Project
Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries
Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level
Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries
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Datasets
AidData's Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals Dataset, Version 1.0
Beijing’s Big Bet on the Philippines: Decoding two decades of China’s financing for development, Version 1.0
China’s AI Exports Database (CAIED)
AidData's Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0
AidData's Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 3.0
BRI-Tagged Chinese Official Finance Dataset, Version 1.0
China's Official Seaport Finance Dataset, 2000-2021
China as an International Lender of Last Resort Dataset, Version 1.0.1
AidData’s Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset, Version 2.0
AidData's Geocoded Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset, Version 1.1.1
Events
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)
Gates Forum 2 Keynote: U.S. Foreign Aid and the Exercise of Power
GeoField Convening: Leveraging earth observation for impact evaluations of climate-sensitive agriculture
Harnessing the Power of a New Toolkit for Rapid, Rigorous Evaluations and Better Public Policy
The Belt and Road's Impact on Partner States
Evaluating Gender Bias in AI Applications: Dissemination Workshop
America’s Role in the World 2023
Geospatial Data and Analysis for Monitoring and Evaluation
China’s Future Naval Bases: New Empirical Data Points to Likely Places
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News
The Risks of China’s Loans to Uzbekistan
Critical minerals: the future is underground and there is a relentless fight for their control.
What is foreign aid? How “Official Development Assistance” is measured
Can China turn the US aid freeze into a soft power win?
Trump’s Threatened Tariff on Buyers of Venezuelan Oil Could Squeeze China
Power plays: China’s changing energy financing in Africa
China Is Reshaping Global Development. Is That Good for the Planet?
US lawmakers urged to stop China’s critical minerals ‘exploitation’ of DR Congo
The PLA revised its joint doctrine to emphasize preparation for war and overseas expansion
A battle is playing out over Congolese cobalt. China is well ahead
Plans for a Chinese Port Roil the Politics of a Former Soviet Nation
How China has been playing the long game, quietly building its global reserves in critical minerals
China Piles the Pressure on India in Its Own Backyard
Congo seeks mineral deal with U.S. Will Washington step in to curb China's dominance in the sector?
Cleantech, mineral security demand drive China miners’ overseas buying spree: MMG chair
Development aid’s future is hiding in plain sight
Future of global aid: America in retreat, China in pole position?
China's top 10 aid recipient countries in Africa
Breaking China's Chokehold over the critical minerals supply chain
China Reins In Its Infrastructure Strategy But Not Its Global Ambition
Trump Guts U.S.’s Foreign Aid, Creating Opening for Xi
Could US aid cuts open opportunities for China to expand global influence?
As the U.S. Exits Foreign Aid, Who Will Fill the Gap?
New US Asia pivot is better timed than the last
As the U.S. steps back from global health, what role will China play?
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