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March 31, 2021

In the Secretive World of Government-to-Government Lending, 100 Chinese Debt Contracts Offer a Trove of New Information

April 7, 2020

A Reckoning for China’s Opaque Overseas Lending

April 2, 2020

In Global COVID-19 Response, New CGD Research Shows China Should Lead on Poor Country Debt Relief

September 11, 2018

Fearing Marxism in Chinese Financing

June 19, 2018

USAID Just Released Its “Journey to Self Reliance” Indicators. What Comes Next?

June 11, 2018

US Aid to Fragile States: Where Does the Money Go?

April 29, 2013

China's Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection

How big is China's aid to Africa? Does it complement or undermine the efforts of traditional donors? China releases little information and outside estimates of the size and nature of Chinese aid vary widely. In an effort to overcome this problem, AidData, based at William and Mary College in Virginia, has compiled a database of thousands of media reports on Chinese-backed projects in Africa from 2000-2011.

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