Foreign aid from China is often characterized as "rogue aid" that is not guided by recipient need but by China …, covering the 1956-2006 period, to empirically test to which extent political and commercial interests shape China's aid … allocation decisions. We estimate the determinants of China's allocation of project aid, food aid, medical teams and total aid …

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 …

variation in the supply of Chinese government financing over time. Our results are nuanced and depend on whether we focus on … development project in a recipient country increases public support for the Chinese government by more than 3 percentage points in …

. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together …