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CGD NOTES
Chinese Leadership and the Future of BRI: What Key Decisions Lie Ahead?
July 24, 2019
In the coming years, China will confront a series of decisions about how to engage with citizens in the countries where it is implementing BRI projects; leaders of the same countries; and donors and lenders outside of China.
Blog Post
Foreign Private Investment in Low-Income Countries: More Important Than You Think
July 24, 2019
In a world of stagnating public aid, limited fiscal space, and rising public debt in low-income countries, can they realistically expect to rely more on private finance from foreigners?
POLICY PAPERS
Trends in Private Capital Flows to Low-Income Countries: Good and Not-So-Good News
July 24, 2019
Interest in mobilizing private finance for SDG investments is surging in a world of stagnating aid, limited fiscal space, and rising LIC debt. But is more reliance on private finance realistic for LICs? This paper explores the performance since the global financial crisis of one source of private fi...
Blog Post
African Countries Should Stay Loyal to China’s Troubled Huawei—Regardless of Trump
May 30, 2019
Last week, the Trump administration’s move to limit Huawei’s access to American components brought the waves of the trade war ashore in ways that were perceptible to the most casual African observer of the China-Africa relationship.
Blog Post
What a Railway in Laos Can Tell Us about China’s Belt and Road
May 17, 2019
The Chinese-financed effort to build a national railway through Laos is a quintessential project of the Belt and Road Initiative.
POLICY PAPERS
The Kunming-Vientiane Railway: The Economic, Procurement, Labor, and Safeguards Dimensions of a Chinese Belt and Road Project
May 17, 2019
The Kunming-Vientiane railway is an anchor investment of the Chinese government’s Belt and Road initiative. This case study will assess the rail project along four dimensions: economic implications; procurement arrangements; labor; and environmental and social safeguards. In each of these area...