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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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« Nouvelles routes de la soie » : comment le chantier du siècle de la Chine s’est enlisé
India’s plan to take on China as south Asia’s favourite lender
Hundreds in Shanghai demand China leader resignation
Errant Remark on China Rescuing El Salvador Shows Pressure on Xi
South Asia Is Missing out on the Clean Energy Transition
Pakistan PM Sharif's China trip brings 'more words, little action'
Africa needs more help with its Chinese debts
Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict: Truce agreed
Chinese foreign development aims and impact — Brad Parks on "Intelligence Matters"
China’s Pacific tour spurs hopes and fears in tiny island nations
This is where China is investing its billions (and why)
Laos economic crisis intensifies amid massive Chinese debt
How Xi has changed China
Despite Huge Problems, Pakistan Remains Indispensable to China
How China Plans to Salvage Its Faltering Belt and Road Initiative
China-indebted Laos way more broke than advertised
In Global Slowdown, China Holds Sway Over Countriesʼ Fates
Asia's ticking debt bomb: Sri Lanka crisis sounds alarm bells across region
Planet Money: China's global lending binge
US Asks Pakistan to Seek Debt Relief from China After Floods
China Reins In Its Belt and Road Program, $1 Trillion Later
Debt Defaults Are a Stress Test for China’s Soft Power Strategy
Will China’s plan for a ‘green silk road’ live up to environmental promises?
Ecuador reaches $1.4bn debt restructuring deal with China
China and west should co-operate on emerging market debt
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