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Blog Posts
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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Publications
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
Las Bambas Copper Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Kinsenda Copper Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Toromocho Copper Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Tenke Fungurume Copper-Cobalt Mine: Chinese Financing for Transition Minerals
Tracking China’s Transition Mineral Financing: Methodology and Approach, Version 1.0
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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
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
What is behind China's lending abroad?
Xi's New Global Development Initiative
Banking on Beijing: Book Talk with Brad Parks
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Hearing on "China’s Activities and Influence in South and Central Asia"
Corridors of Power Dataset Release
Russia, Ukraine, and the Future of Global Order
Economic Connectivity and Competition in a Multipolar Asia: Institute for Peace & Diplomacy
The China-Global South conference: Mapping China’s political and information influence in the Global South
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News
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
A new report digs into China’s labyrinthine foreign loans
Can the United States Rival China in Latin America?
China owed $385bn – including ‘hidden debt’ from poorer nations, says report
The cost of China's help
Comment la Chine tient les pays en développement par la dette
En Zambie, la dette «cachée» vis-à-vis de la Chine
Diese Schuldenliste entlarvt Chinas wahre Absichten
Warning over Chinese lending
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