This paper analyzes China's growing foreign aid and export credit program as an element of the changing international aid architecture. The international aid architecture is defined as the institutions, norms, and practices that govern the transfer of concessional resources for development. It...

China’s development aid to Africa has increased rapidly, yet this might be the only fact on which we have widespread agreement when it comes to Chinese aid. Analysts disagree about the nature of China’s official development aid, the countries that are its main recipients, the reasons for...