This article investigates whether China’s foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders … results show that current political leaders’ birth regions receive substantially larger financial ows from China than other …

trade in the light of China’s rise in the global economy. The existing scholarly work suggests that economic diplomacy … should be more pivotal in economic exchange with China than with Western market economies. In an econometric test, I analyze …

that much of the controversy about Chinese “aid” stems from a failure to distinguish between China’s Official Development … Assistance (ODA) and more commercially-oriented sources and types of state financing. Using a new database on China’s official …

importers. Using monthly trade data from China Customs covering imports of machinery and transport equipment from 173 countries …

One goal of China's Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China … attitudes of individuals in developing countries towards China at both the national and subnational level. Using repeated cross … investment from China to Latin America affect opinions on China within 18 Latin American countries over the 2002-2013 period. We …

China’s development finance is sizable but reliable information is scarce. To address critical information gaps, we … Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000-2011. Our initial data collection efforts found that China’s official finance … alternative funding from China. More broadly, these findings highlight the importance of gathering better data on the development …