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Blog Posts
How China is financing its domestic shipbuilding and vessel acquisition industry
As development finance shifts, AidData event explores Indo-Pacific prospects for aid and credit deals
Chasing copper and cobalt: China’s mining operations in Peru and the DRC
China’s global scanner dissemination
New AidData report, dataset track China’s investments in critical minerals
Decoding the message: Uncovering Beijing’s media strategies in the Philippines
As Latin America shifts toward China, AidData research examines Beijing’s growing influence
Mapping China’s COVID-19 aid footprint
Chancay port opens as China’s gateway to South America
Amidst rising tensions, Beijing bets big in the Philippines
Extending AidData’s global reach and impact through a new training initiative
AidData launches new Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset
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Publications
Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance
Elites, the aid curse, and Chinese development finance: A conjoint survey experiment on elites’ aid preferences in 141 low- and middle-income countries
A Comparative Study of Traditional Donors and Non-traditional Donors in Sri Lanka
Spotlight on PRC Engagement in Honduras Relative to Central America
Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Investing in Narratives: How Beijing promotes its development projects in the Philippines
China’s hidden role in malaria control and elimination in Africa
Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis
AidData’s Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset
Beijing’s Big Bet on the Philippines: Decoding two decades of China’s financing for development
China’s AI Exports: Developing a Tool to Track Chinese Development Finance in the Global South—Technical Documentation
China's AI Exports: Technology Distribution and Data Safety
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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
Reimagining Evaluations Through a Geospatial Lens
Banking on China's Belt and Road Initiative: Where does CPEC stand on the global map?
Solving the BRI Data Puzzle with Dr. Ammar Malik: Tabadlab Live
Corridors of Power: How Beijing uses economic, social, and network ties to exert influence along the Silk Road
Open Data Week 2021: Empowering Insights with Open Geospatial Data
GeoConvergence 2021: GeoQuery: Making Geospatial Data Accessible for All
How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments
Investing in Kenya's People
Unlocking the SDGs as a Shared Results Framework: From Ambition to Action
Open Data Week 2020: Using Open Data to Empower Mission-Driven Organizations: Lessons from AidData & DataKind
World Urban Forum: The Innovation-Data-Finance Nexus
SDSN TReNDS Roundtable: Governing the Data Revolution
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News
Sudan conflict delivers fresh blow to China’s African lending strategy
How China changed the game for countries in default
China Is a Loan Shark With No Legs Left to Break
U.S.-China split shadows hopes for lifting debt load from global economy
How to survive a superpower split
China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse
Mysterious Killing of Chinese Gold Miners Puts New Pressure on Beijing
China-U.S. Fight for Influence Runs Through Police in Pacific
China's Lending Practices Are Not a Good Look
China’s ‘Belt and Road’ grew out of a lending spree. Now those loans may be its problem
The ‘rift is there’: China vs. the world on global debt
The IMF faces a nightmarish identity crisis
Will Donald Trump's popularity be boosted by his indictment?
Spain Pitches Closer EU-Latin America Ties
China’s Financial Diplomacy Is Still Minor League
How to avoid a developing world debt crisis
China’s Belt and Road Initiative projects may be faltering
US aims to counter China's influence in global institutions, Yellen says
Your Wednesday Briefing: China’s Billions in Bailouts
Beijing’s big bailouts
How China Became a Global Lender of Last Resort
March 27, 2023: Cheques and Imbalances
What the world owes China
China ramping up bailout loans to Belt and Road countries, report says
China spent $240bn on belt and road bailouts from 2008 to 2021, study finds
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