Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for
domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has …

Public developmental institutions are pivotal in shaping the contours of the electricity sector
of the developing world and its associated greenhouse gas emissions pathways. However …

This paper examines whether Chinese aid impacts citizens' trust in government by matching
geocoded data on Chinese aid projects located in sub‐Sahara Africa (SSA) between 2000 …

Scholars and practitioners are torn between diverging viewpoints on the contribution of
foreign assistance and foreign direct investment to the economic development, economic …

One of a government's primary responsibilities is to provide public goods and services for
the benefit of citizens. A government that excels in such provision may therefore win …

Despite China's recent rise as a major public finance provider for the electricity sector of the
developing world, there is limited knowledge on the determinants of the allocation of its …

Motivation Despite an increased focus on inclusive development, we know little about the
extent to which development aid reaches politically excluded groups or how this varies …

Abstract Using the Chinese Agriculture Technology Demonstration Center (ATDC) in Africa
as a quasi-natural experiment, we examine the causal impacts of China's aid on crop …

Foreign Aid has been a topic of study for decades with few concrete findings on whether it is
effective or not. Contemporary foreign aid is divided into two camps: the West and China …