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  Brokers on the Ground: Chinese Commercial Creditors’ Entry into Africa Sovereign Development Finance

  By Tianyi Wu The portfolio of financiers participating in China’s overseas development finance is changing. Between 2000 and 2019, development Read more

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  The Growth Connections Between China and the Global South: A Review and a Refocus

  As late as 1984, half of China’s exports consisted of raw materials, including oil, coal, food and livestock. After 47 Read more

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  International Investment Pushes Past and Present, Part 3: Jubilee-Era Debt Relief

  By Tim Hirschel-Burns This blog is part of a blog series on past large-scale international investment programs and the lessons Read more

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  What New Data Reveals About China-Africa Economic Ties

  By Mengdi Yue China and Africa’s economic relationship has continued to evolve over the last decade. Recent milestones include the Read more

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  China-Africa Economic Bulletin, 2026 Edition

  A series of concurrent shocks have posed significant challenges to the African continent, including the recent global pullback by the Read more

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  Event Summary: What Time Is It? A Cross-Cutting Conference on Historical Perspectives and Global Governance Reform

  By Brigid Smith The History and Political Economy (HPE) Project and the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center held a two-day Read more

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  How Can China’s Debt Sustainability Analysis Better Serve Global South’s Development Goals?

  By Tianyi Wu The current debt and development crisis in the Global South has resurfaced a long-standing tension in sovereign Read more

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  Debt Sustainability with Chinese Characteristics: Norm Convergence and Its Limits in Sovereign Lending

  In 2019, China introduced the Belt and Road Initiative Debt Sustainability Framework (BRI–DSF) for low-income countries (LICs), offering a critical Read more