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DevExplains: Chinese aid

Separate efforts have been made to track Chinese assistance to countries. AidData is one of the most prominent and it has tried to separate Chinese aid to Africa that qualifies as ODA as per the definition set by the DAC and other financial flows. AidData will be coming out with a new dataset that specifies Chinese assistance globally - not just in Africa - in early October, Devex was told.

Casting light on the misconceptions of China's growing aid to Africa

The international development finance landscape is changing - not just in the emergence of new donors with new money, but in the way they do things. And China, one of the world's most significant emerging donors, is at the forefront of this change. For the past two years alone, Asia's economic behemoth has been setting up economic and development institutions left and right, including the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the BRICS' New Development Bankheadquartered in Shanghai, and the "One Belt, One Road"initiative. And all this in addition to the country's growing financial flows and assistance to other regions of the world over the past decade or so.

A closer look at the risks and opportunities of China's aid to Africa

The debate over China's oft-misunderstood approach to aid and development has almost always focused on the motives of the East Asian country, as the donor, and never those of the governments and leaders that receive the assistance. How important is it to see the other side of the story - why governments accept the assistance - and how will it affect the effectiveness of the development programs that the Asian behemoth is funding seemingly at will?

Is the time ripe for China's own aid agency?

While Asia's economic juggernaut is steadily becoming one the world's fastest-rising emerging donors - with more than $6.4 billion in annual official development assistance, half of which goes to Africa - most observers remain clueless on how Beijing disburses these funds, what the country's ODA policy really is, and how it views "development assistance"in terms of addressing the world's humanitarian needs over its own commercial and economic interests.

China's 'misunderstood' aid approach to Africa

Details of Chinese aid to Africa have always been lacking in detail, sparking endless debates about Beijing's true goals and if Africa will benefit at all. We learn from several leading experts why this has led to confusion within the development community.

Gates to China: More aid please

Bill Gates, the world's richest man and one of its most influential philanthropists, is asking China to not only be a rising economic juggernaut, but also become a bigger player in development.