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Blog Posts
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
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
Chinese aid and health at the country and local level
The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa
Chinese health funding in Africa: The untold story
Harboring Global Ambitions: China's Ports Footprint and Implications for Future Overseas Naval Bases
Debt Distress on China’s Belt and Road
China as an International Lender of Last Resort
How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments
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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
U.S.-China Relations in 2025: Trade, Economy, and Looking to the Future
How Can Indo-Pacific Countries Bargain for Better Deals with Development Partners?
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
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China is celebrating a decade of the Belt and Road Initiative. What is it about?
China Reboots Its Belt and Road Initiative
China’s promise of prosperity brought Laos debt — and distress
China or US: Who's delaying debt relief to developing world
Where next for China’s Belt and Road?
Sri Lanka shows how broken debt negotiations have become
China has poured billions into Africa’s infrastructure. Is it now tightening the tap?
China Faces a Familiar Economic Downturn. But Its Crisis Is Worsened by the War in Ukraine
How China’s Belt and Road Took Over the World
A Decade Down the Belt and Road
Blue-water ambitions: Is China looking beyond its neighborhood now it has the world’s largest navy?
China's Xi pledges to support Africa's industrialisation at BRICS
China’s blueprint for an alternative world order
China will challenge the US Navy for global dominance
China Keeping Details of Investment Deals From Bolivian Public and Congress, Sources Claim
Pakistan hails Belt and Road wins 'prematurely' as polls loom
China’s Top Option for Next Naval Base Is Sri Lanka, Report Says
China may be planning overseas naval bases in Asia and Africa, say analysts
Beijing Is Going Places—and Building Naval Bases
What China’s future overseas military expansion could look like, according to a new report
China builds on 60-year record to strengthen medical ties with Africa
Why China Has a Giant Pile of Debt
Investing in Africa: What needs to change?
Explainer: What is China's position on restructuring debt owed by poor nations?
US inflation beats forecasts but remains high
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