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

This paper provides an overview of the small but growing literature on the bilateral foreign aid activities carried out by the five BRICS countries. Whi

Compared with China’s dominance in world trade, its expanding role in global finance is poorly documented and understood.

China’s lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress. Given the secrecy surrounding China’s loans, also the asso

Populism at the country level is at an all-time high, with more than 25% of nations currently governed by populists.

We introduce the Africa Debt Database (ADD), the most granular and comprehensive (public) dataset to date on the terms of external public debt of countr