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 …

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 …