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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 …
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230114
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 the precise commitment, implementation, and completion dates of Chinese development projects. We use data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over...
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non-concessional state financing — from China to 138 countries between 2000 and 2014. We use these data to investigate … claim that significant financial support from China impairs the effectiveness of grants and loans from Western donors and …
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The paper uses a fixed effect model to detect the impact of China's official developmentfinance program. It shows that … China's official development finance has a positive effecton bilateral trade. Further, China's official development finance … democraticattributes and at a low level of per capita income, assuming promoting bilateraltrade is one of China's policy objectives. The …
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establishment. In order to achieve the 13th Five-year Plan target of strategic emerging industries in China, the government and …
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As China deepens its engagement in global governance and development, its strategic motivation and rising influence … within the UN and on international rules and norms are attracting the world's attention. This paper focuses on China …’s engagement with the UNDS, specifically Chinese funding and allocation decisions. China's UNDS funding has risen rapidly since …
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In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...
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