China's Belt and Road Initiative aims to improve connectivity between China and more than 70 countries through … infrastructure investment and regional cooperation. The initiative has the potential to accelerate significantly the rate of economic … infrastructure improvements on Belt and Road Initiative and non-Belt and Road Initiative countries' trade flows, growth, and poverty …

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) initiated by China in 2013 is a new experiment in regional cooperation, which aims … to improve infrastructure connectivity through investment. This paper investigates whether the BRI created exports for … its member states (excluding China), based on a difference-in-differences model. We find a significant causal relationship …