Foreign infrastructure investments tend to increase cross-border economic activity between investor and recipient …”), or whether the infrastructure investment leads to an increase in overall trade (a “lifting all boats hypothesis”). Our …-border economic activity (imports, exports, and M&A flows) with China is accompanied by a decrease in activity with third party …

international trade between China, Europe and Africa as well as building a new international economic order and security system … in the most dynamic way and is the most exploited among all railway connections between China and Europe. In theory, the … Asia. Transport infrastructure, much better than in the case of the other BRI railway branches, seems to be an additional …

the People's Republic of China and Japan's "Partnership for Quality Infrastructure" (PQI). After introducing key issues …, which is associated with multilateral infrastructure connectivity initiatives, like the "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) of … and PQI against this background in more detail. While infrastructure connectivity initiatives promise to combine national …

China is a major recipient of foreign investment and has become a major investor internationally. Its active … attracted considerable interest and commentary internationally. China is actively engaged in adjusting and coordinating its … designed to widen access of private capital to investment opportunities within China, and externally in the form of policies …

Over the last decade China's investment in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased substantially in volume …, we demonstrate that since mid-2010s China's overseas investment has tilted toward sectors where China has a comparative …. Moreover, China's rising overseas investment can be linked to the rebalancing of Chinese economy, and LAC stands to benefit …

Compared with China's dominance in world trade, its expanding role in global finance is poorly documented and … understood. Over the past decades, China has exported record amounts of capital to the rest of the world. Many of these financial … flows are not reported to the IMF, the BIS or the World Bank. "Hidden debts" to China are especially significant for about …