Chinese Development Policy and Financing

Introduction

Watch the Donor Tracker team's first foray into analyzing development finance beyond the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD's) Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Jing Cai of Development Reimagined joins the Donor Tracker’s Zoe Johnson and Raimund Zühr for a discussion of current trends in China's policy and financing for global development cooperation.

Drawing on the findings of the Donor Tracker’s latest report on Chinese development funding and policy and Development Reimagined's longstanding expertise on the topic, the webinar addresses: How does China's approach to international development cooperation differ from OECD DAC donors? Just how big is China's role in financing international development and how does it compare to other providers of development finance? What key trends and issues in China's international development cooperation will be interesting to watch in the months and years ahead?

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Further readings

Other analyses of China’s development finance

• Boston University Global Development Policy Center, ‘China’s Overseas Development Finance: Geospatial Data for Analysis of Biodiversity and Indigenous Lands’; 2008-2019
• British Medical Journal, ‘Tracking development assistance for health from China, 2007–2017’; October 2019
• Center for Global Development/Development Reimagined, ‘China’s Aid from the Bottom Up: Recipient Country Reporting on Chinese Development Cooperation Flows’; July 2020
• Center for Global Development, AidData at William & Mary, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and Peterson Institute for International Economics, ‘How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments’; March 2021
• China Africa Research Initiative (SAIS-CARI), ‘Chinese Loans to Africa (CLA) Database’; 200-2019
• Development Reimagined, ‘China’s Debt Relief Along the Belt and Road’; April 2019

Other analyses of China’s strategic priorities for development cooperation

• Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC), ‘70 Years of China’s Foreign Aid and Transformation to International Development Cooperation’; December 2020
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), ‘Brief on White Paper on China's International Development Cooperation in the New Era’; February 2021
• Panda Paw Dragon Claw, ‘China’s Manifesto for Leadership in Global Development’; February 2021
• Center for Global Development, 'Three Key Shifts on Development Cooperation in China’s 2021 White Paper', February 2021
• Overseas Development Initiative (ODI), ‘How China's new white paper defines a decade of development cooperation’; January 2021

Understanding China’s development actors and decision-making structures

• Center for Global Development/Development Reimagined, ‘China’s Foreign Aid: A Primer for Recipient Countries, Donors, and Aid Providers’; July 2020
• United Nations Development Program, ‘Governance System of China's Foreign Assistance’; October 2019
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, ‘The Ins and Outs of China’s International Development Agency’); September 2019
• Brookings Institute, ‘One year on, the role of the CIDCA remains cloudy’; April 2019
• Diálogo Chino, ‘What China’s new foreign aid rules can and cannot do’; January 2019
• Urgewald, ‘Chinese Lending Institutional Landscape’; October 2020