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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
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
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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That big Chinese bailout loan paper in full
China grants billions in bailouts as Belt and Road Initiative falters
China gave huge loans to Belt and Road countries. Now it’s spending billions to bail them out
China spent $240 billion bailing out 'Belt and Road' countries - study
China Lent Heavily to Developing Nations. Now It’s Helping Them Manage Their Debt
China Boosts Lending to Struggling Belt and Road Borrowers
After Doling Out Huge Loans, China Is Now Bailing Out Countries
China’s Expanding Influence in Iraq
China is Uniting Middle East—That's Bad News for U.S.
"Highlights in China's Development Spending "
China’s Global Development Spending
How Democracy Can Win: The Right Way to Counter Autocracy
China's Checkbook Diplomacy Has Bounced
How India’s Belt-Road Initiative snub proved prophetic
China’s Belt and Road to Nowhere
What does China’s reopening mean for Latin America?
Ambition, concern drive Lao-China high-speed rail project
Sri Lanka Is Calm Again. That Doesn’t Mean Things Are Any Better.
China’s Global Mega-Projects Are Falling Apart
Pakistan taps Chinese credit for railway upgrade despite debt crisis
China Props Up Belt-and-Road Borrowers Via Unusual Channel
China lends billions to poor countries. Is that a burden ... or a blessing?
Laos' debt pressure raises specter of a China vassal state
Debt of emerging countries: China in the dock
Kenya’s $3.8 Billion Chinese-Built Railway Shows Why Belt and Road Is Being Reworked
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