The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) initiated by China in 2013 is a new experiment in regional cooperation, which aims … its member states (excluding China), based on a difference-in-differences model. We find a significant causal relationship … between the BRI countries and China (considered as "give-them-a-fish"), export creation also originated from the BRI countries …

China's investment activities and infrastructure development in Africa under the Belt and Road Initiative ("BRI") have … role in one of the key BRI corridors, which explains China's active engagement on the continent through the construction of … hard infrastructure, port development and trade and investment activities. China is Africa's largest bilateral trading …

explores related problems of adjudication involving investment projects in the context of China's 2013 ‘One Belt, One Road … proceedings initiated so far by foreign companies against China - or by Chinese companies against foreign host states – suggests … that alternative dispute resolution may become one of the important ‘legal innovations' of China's OBOR cooperation. Yet …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …