This article introduces a new dataset of official financing from China to 138 develo**
countries between 2000 and 2014. It investigates whether Chinese development finance …

China is playing an ever important role in Africa's energy transition, mainly via its massive
investment and loans on various energy infrastructure projects ranging from extractive …

Infrastructure investment is essential for African countries to enhance economic activities
and reduce poverty; however, the conclusions from national-level studies remain …

Does Chinese development assistance undermine recipient country compliance with DAC
aid conditionality? I theorize that Chinese aid provides an outside option that weakens …

Since the creation of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in 2000, Chinese
official development assistance (ODA) to Africa has increased drastically. Only few analyses …

This article examines how Chinese foreign aid interacts with the quality of the host country's
governance in sha** Chinese state‐owned enterprises'(CSOEs') foreign direct investment …

We examine the impact of China's commercially oriented forms of state financing, the
dominant type of Chinese aid, on voting alignment between recipient countries and China in …

The emergence of China as a major development partner requires a reassessment of
traditional donor–recipient dynamics. In addition to adopting new rhetoric like “South–South …

This paper examines whether Chinese aid impacts citizens' trust in government by matching
geocoded data on Chinese aid projects located in sub‐Sahara Africa (SSA) between 2000 …

This research note empirically examines China's development assistance to Asia, a region
critical to China's geostrategic ambition, from 2000 to 2014. It uses AidData's Global …