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

China's importance as a major donor outside the traditional Western donors has been increasing and this has helped to … conditionality making China's aid model different to Western donors. China dominates as a donor for Zimbabwe with substantial aid … also going into Uganda and South Africa while South Africa is the darling of Western donors. Chinese funded projects are …

This paper examines China and Africa co-operation from the angle of structural transformation as a major driver of …, opportunities as well as development finances in Africa's transformation. We review critical parts of China's transformation to see … if these ideas are relevant for Africa. We use empirical evidence from China-Africa co-operation and find that China …

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 … financing commitments to Africa from 2000-2013, we find the allocation of Chinese ODA to be driven primarily by foreign policy …