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 …

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 …

China’s provision of development finance to other countries is sizable but reliable information is scarce. We introduce … Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000 - 2011. We find that China's commitments amounted to approximately US$ 73 billion … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our …