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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
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
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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News
The Risks of China’s Loans to Uzbekistan
Critical minerals: the future is underground and there is a relentless fight for their control.
What is foreign aid? How “Official Development Assistance” is measured
Can China turn the US aid freeze into a soft power win?
Trump’s Threatened Tariff on Buyers of Venezuelan Oil Could Squeeze China
Power plays: China’s changing energy financing in Africa
China Is Reshaping Global Development. Is That Good for the Planet?
US lawmakers urged to stop China’s critical minerals ‘exploitation’ of DR Congo
The PLA revised its joint doctrine to emphasize preparation for war and overseas expansion
A battle is playing out over Congolese cobalt. China is well ahead
Plans for a Chinese Port Roil the Politics of a Former Soviet Nation
How China has been playing the long game, quietly building its global reserves in critical minerals
China Piles the Pressure on India in Its Own Backyard
Congo seeks mineral deal with U.S. Will Washington step in to curb China's dominance in the sector?
Cleantech, mineral security demand drive China miners’ overseas buying spree: MMG chair
Development aid’s future is hiding in plain sight
Future of global aid: America in retreat, China in pole position?
China's top 10 aid recipient countries in Africa
Breaking China's Chokehold over the critical minerals supply chain
China Reins In Its Infrastructure Strategy But Not Its Global Ambition
Trump Guts U.S.’s Foreign Aid, Creating Opening for Xi
Could US aid cuts open opportunities for China to expand global influence?
As the U.S. Exits Foreign Aid, Who Will Fill the Gap?
New US Asia pivot is better timed than the last
As the U.S. steps back from global health, what role will China play?
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