title: Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid-Conflict Nexus Revisited
creator: Strange, Austin M. 
creator: Parks , Bradley 
creator: Tierney, Michael J. 
creator:  Fuchs, Andreas
creator: Dreher , Axel 
subject: ddc-330
subject: 330 Economics
description: China’s development finance is sizable but reliable information is scarce. To address critical information gaps, we introduce a new open source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000-2011. Our initial data collection efforts found that China’s official finance commitments amount to approximately US$ 73 billion over the 2000-2011 period. We provide details on 1,511 non-investment projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on the aid-conflict nexus. Our results show that sudden withdrawals of “traditional” aid are only more likely to induce conflict in the absence of sufficient alternative funding from China. More broadly, these findings highlight the importance of gathering better data on the development activities of China and other non-traditional donors to better understand the link between foreign aid and conflict.
date: 2014-01
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/16150/1/Strange_Parks_Tierney_Fuchs_Dreher_2014_dp553.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00016150
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-161502
identifier:   Strange, Austin M.  ; Parks , Bradley  ; Tierney, Michael J.  ;  Fuchs, Andreas ; Dreher , Axel   (2014) Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid-Conflict Nexus Revisited.  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/16150/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng