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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 …
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
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Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, implementation, and completion dates of Chinese development projects. We use data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over...
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non-concessional state financing — from China to 138 countries between 2000 and 2014. We use these data to investigate … claim that significant financial support from China impairs the effectiveness of grants and loans from Western donors and …
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The paper uses a fixed effect model to detect the impact of China's official developmentfinance program. It shows that … China's official development finance has a positive effecton bilateral trade. Further, China's official development finance … democraticattributes and at a low level of per capita income, assuming promoting bilateraltrade is one of China's policy objectives. The …
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This article introduces a new dataset of official financing from China to 138 developing countries between 2000 and … financial support from China impairs the overall effectiveness of aid from Western donors, aid from the United States tends to … be more effective in countries that receive no substantial support from China. …
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establishment. In order to achieve the 13th Five-year Plan target of strategic emerging industries in China, the government and …
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