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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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China as an International Lender of Last Resort
How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments
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
Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level
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China’s AI Exports Database (CAIED)
Forthcoming 2024: 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
Events
Reputational Security: The Imperative To Reinvest In U.S. Strategic Communications Capabilities
Launch of the 2023 Development Co-operation Report, "Debating the Aid System"
Cooperation Amid Crisis: How Can Multilateral Organizations Position Themselves to Help Countries Mitigate and Manage Shocks?
Imagining a Dynamic Policy for Gender Mainstreaming in Pakistan
Pakistonomy: Understanding China's BRI Impact
China in East Africa: Lessons for The Developing World
China Research Group: Banking on the Belt and Road
2022 Global Development Forum: Global Disruptions in International Development
America's Role in the World: International Development in an Era of Great Power Competition
Sri Lanka's Economy on Life Support: Causes, Lessons, and Solutions
How to build a data-driven public service: Inclusive data practices
Financing and operations of multilateral development banks: a clients’ perspective
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China lent $1.34 trln in 2000-2021, focus shifts from Belt and Road to rescue finance-report
China ‘world’s biggest debt collector’ as poorer nations struggle with its loans
China Is Lending Billions to Countries in Financial Trouble
How China Became the World’s Top Development Financier
Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program
Belt and Road Initiative: Is China's trillion-dollar gamble worth it?
China is celebrating a decade of the Belt and Road Initiative. What is it about?
China Reboots Its Belt and Road Initiative
China’s promise of prosperity brought Laos debt — and distress
China or US: Who's delaying debt relief to developing world
Where next for China’s Belt and Road?
Sri Lanka shows how broken debt negotiations have become
China has poured billions into Africa’s infrastructure. Is it now tightening the tap?
China Faces a Familiar Economic Downturn. But Its Crisis Is Worsened by the War in Ukraine
How China’s Belt and Road Took Over the World
A Decade Down the Belt and Road
Blue-water ambitions: Is China looking beyond its neighborhood now it has the world’s largest navy?
China's Xi pledges to support Africa's industrialisation at BRICS
China’s blueprint for an alternative world order
China will challenge the US Navy for global dominance
China Keeping Details of Investment Deals From Bolivian Public and Congress, Sources Claim
Pakistan hails Belt and Road wins 'prematurely' as polls loom
China’s Top Option for Next Naval Base Is Sri Lanka, Report Says
China may be planning overseas naval bases in Asia and Africa, say analysts
Beijing Is Going Places—and Building Naval Bases
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