A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts With Foreign Governments Through a systematic search of debt information management systems, official...

US and European policymakers are no longer taking a “wait and see” position on China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Late...

This article investigates whether China’s foreign aid is particularly prone to capture by political leaders of aid-receiving countries. We...

Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on...

China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial...

This article investigates whether China’s foreign aid is particularly prone to capture by political leaders of aid-receiving countries. We...

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability...

How do development projects influence the geographic distribution of economic activity within low-income and middle-income countries? Existing...

This paper introduces a new dataset of official financing — including foreign aid and other forms of concessional and non-concessional state...

This paper introduces a new dataset of official financing — including foreign aid and other forms of concessional and non-concessional state...

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability...