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A New Era?
Trends in China's Financing for International Development Cooperation
May 10, 2021
Zoe Johnson
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- 1. Introduction
- Understanding China’s development actors and decision-making structures
- 3a. Foreign assistance
- China’s foreign assistance is on the rise
- 3b. ‘ODA-like’ flows
- China’s ‘ODA-like’ flows in 2019 are estimated at US$5.9 billion; China would be the 6th largest provider of ODA
- Other research attempts to measure China’s ‘ODA-like’ flows
- China provides most of its ODA-like funding bilaterally
- China takes a differentiated approach to collaboration with multilaterals
- ‘Foreign assistance’ represents only a small share of China’s overall development finance
- COVID-19: China’s actions related to debt relief
- Other analyses of China’s development finance
- China links its priorities to the SDG agenda while keeping them grounded in foundational cultural principles
- China’s development cooperation agenda is strongly linked to its Belt and Road Initiative
- China is increasing its emphasis on governance, climate change, health, and humanitarian assistance
- Other analyses of China’s strategic priorities for development cooperation
- China’s importance will continue to grow, and with it, its institutional capacities and approaches
- China’s support to multilateral institutions, particularly as part of its response to COVID-19, is worth monitoring
- Although China is taking steps to increase its openness, transparency remains a challenge
- Acknowledgments
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