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 …

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 …

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 …

China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses … these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we … demonstrate that India's Exim Bank is significantly more likely to locate a project in a given jurisdiction if China provided …