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How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments

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Silk Road Diplomacy: Deconstructing Beijing's toolkit to influence South and Central Asia

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Corridors of Power: How Beijing uses economic, social, and network ties to exert influence along the Silk Road

Samantha Custer, Justin Schon, Ana Horigoshi, Divya Mathew, Bryan Burgess, Vera Choo, Amber Hutchinson, Austin Baehr, and Kelsey Marshall

2021-12-13

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Banking on the Belt and Road: Insights from a new global dataset of 13,427 Chinese development projects

Ammar A. Malik, Bradley Parks, Brooke Russell, Joyce Jiahui Lin, Katherine Walsh, Kyra Solomon, Sheng Zhang, Thai-Binh Elston, and Seth Goodman

2021-09-29

Tracking Chinese Development Finance: An Application of AidData’s TUFF 2.0 Methodology TUFF, tracking, underreported financial flows, China, Chinese funding, Chinese aid, Chinese debt Methodology Samantha Custer, Axel Dreher, Thai-Binh Elston, Andreas Fuchs, Siddharta Ghose, Joyce Jiahui Lin, Ammar A. Malik, Bradley C. Parks, Brooke Russell, Kyra Solomon, Austin Strange, Michael J. Tierney, Katherine Walsh, Lincoln Zaleski, and Sheng Zhang

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Tracking Chinese Development Finance: An Application of AidData’s TUFF 2.0 Methodology

Samantha Custer, Axel Dreher, Thai-Binh Elston, Andreas Fuchs, Siddharta Ghose, Joyce Jiahui Lin, Ammar A. Malik, Bradley C. Parks, Brooke Russell, Kyra Solomon, Austin Strange, Michael J. Tierney, Katherine Walsh, Lincoln Zaleski, and Sheng Zhang

2021-09-29

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Corridors of Power: How Beijing uses economic, social, and network ties to exert influence along the Silk Road

Banking on the Belt and Road: Insights from a new global dataset of 13,427 Chinese development projects

Tracking Chinese Development Finance: An Application of AidData’s TUFF 2.0 Methodology

Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa

Does India Use Development Finance to Compete with China? A Subnational Analysis

Listening to Leaders 2021: A report card for development partners in an era of contested cooperation

Discourse Wars and ‘Mask Diplomacy’: China’s Global Image Management in Times of Crisis

Mask Wars: China's Exports of Medical Goods in Times of COVID-19

Chinese Aid and Local Employment in Africa

The effects of trade, aid, and investment on China's image in Latin America

Why Does Aid Not Target the Poorest?

How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments

Does Decentralization Promote Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Kenya’s Constituencies Development Fund

Foreign Aid and State Legitimacy

Chinese Development Aid and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Tanzania

Project Aid and Firm Performance

Linking Local Infrastructure Development and Deforestation: Evidence from Satellite and Administrative Data

Development Cooperation from a Partner Perspective: How can Germany and other donors perform better in the eyes of their partner countries?

Aid Management, Trust, and Development Policy Influence: New Evidence from a Survey of Public Sector Officials in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries

Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects

Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal earthquake

Delegation of implementation in project aid

Bargaining with Beijing: A Tale of Two Borrowers

Childhood health and the changing distribution of foreign aid: Evidence from Nigeria's transition to lower-middle-income status

Sunshine or Curse? Foreign Direct Investment, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and Individual Corruption Experiences in Africa

When does transparency improve public services? Street‐level discretion, information, and targeting

How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi

Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

Land Deals and Social Fabrics: The Impact of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions on Social Trust in sub-Saharan Africa

Aid curse with Chinese characteristics? Chinese development flows and economic reforms

Kuwekeza Katika Maisha ya Watu wa Kenya

Reducing the Costs and Barriers to Evaluations Using Geospatial Data: New Methods with an Application for HIV/AIDS in Cote d'Ivoire

How Information about Foreign Aid Affects Public Spending Decisions: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi

When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Aid Projects in 183 Countries

A convolutional neural network approach to predict non‐permissive environments from moderate‐resolution imagery

Do WHO Epidemic Declarations Matter? Evidence from the Meningitis Belt

Evaluating water- and health-related development projects: A cross-project and microbased approach

Investing in Kenya's People: Valuing the Benefits of the U.S.-Kenya Relationship

Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level

A micro-based approach to evaluate the effect of water supply on health in Uganda

Does Foreign Aid Raise Awareness of Corruption? Evidence from Chinese Aid in 30 African States

Impact of Development Aid on Infant Mortality: Micro-level Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Impacts of a large-scale titling initiative on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Data Inventory: Making Data Work for Children on the Move

Overcoming Blind Spots: Making Data Work for Children on the Move Policy Brief

geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries

Pulling the purse strings: Are there sectoral differences in political preferencing of Chinese aid to Africa?

Exploring the Socioeconomic Co-benefits of Global Environment Facility Projects in Uganda Using a Quasi-Experimental Geospatial Interpolation (QGI) Approach

Mining, Rural Livelihoods and Food Security: A Disaggregated Analysis of Sub- Saharan Africa

Open Earth Observations for Sustainable Urban Development

Counting the Costs

Comparative Effects of Foreign Direct Investment from China and Other Sources on Africa’s Economic Growth

Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh

Target at the Right Level: Aid, Spillovers and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Silk Road Diplomacy: Deconstructing Beijing's toolkit to influence South and Central Asia

Influencing the Narrative: How the Chinese government mobilizes students and media to burnish its image

The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions

Rising Powers and Grassroots Image Management: Confucius Institutes and China in the Media

The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa

Harnessing the Benefits of Transparency: Street-level Discretion, Targetability, and Local Public Service Delivery

Long-term Impact Evaluation of the Malawi Wellness and Agriculture for Life Advancement Program

China and the World Bank: How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States

Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early 21st Century

Why does aid not target the poorest?

Public Infrastructure Provision and Ethnic Favouritism: Evidence from South Africa

Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects

Estimating Financing to the Sustainable Development Goals, Version 2.0

Financing the SDGs: Evidence in Four Countries

Are donors targeting the greatest health needs? Evidence from mining sites in the D.R.Congo

Is Sunshine the Best Disinfectant? Foreign Direct Investment, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and Local Corruption

Building on a Foundation Stone: The Long-Term Impacts of a Local Infrastructure and Governance Program in Cambodia

Mining, Rural Livelihoods and Food Security: A Disaggregated Analysis of Sub- Saharan Africa

Chinese aid and local ethnic identification

Impact Evaluation of the Niger Participatory & Responsive Governance Project: Final Report