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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
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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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
Highway to the forest? Land governance and the siting and environmental impacts of Chinese government-funded road building in Cambodia
Why hide? Africa’s unreported debt to China
Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival
Tracking Chinese Development Finance: An Application of AidData’s TUFF 3.0 Methodology
Belt and Road Reboot: Beijing’s Bid to De-Risk Its Global Infrastructure Initiative
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Datasets
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
Events
Investing in Tanzania's People | Kuwekeza kwa Watu wa Tanzania
China's AI Exports: Implications for Asia and Africa (RAND)
Gates Forum 2 Keynote: U.S. Foreign Aid and the Exercise of Power
GeoField Convening: Leveraging earth observation for impact evaluations of climate-sensitive agriculture
Harnessing the Power of a New Toolkit for Rapid, Rigorous Evaluations and Better Public Policy
The Belt and Road's Impact on Partner States
Evaluating Gender Bias in AI Applications: Dissemination Workshop
America’s Role in the World 2023
Geospatial Data and Analysis for Monitoring and Evaluation
China’s Future Naval Bases: New Empirical Data Points to Likely Places
The Implications of “Peak China” for the Belt and Road Initiative?
Risk and resilience in the face of Russian interference in Europe & Eurasia
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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
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.
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