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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
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
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
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
Why Competitive Politics Can Pull Development Finance Away from Need
By Keyi Tang As development finance tightens, the most important question may not be who is lending, but how domestic Read more
Disentangling Decision-Making: Chinese Infrastructure Finance in Africa
By Tianyi Wu In 2016, China committed $28.8 billion in infrastructure loans to African countries––a record peak that has been Read more
Resurgence to Retirement: Global Insights on Transitioning Away from Coal
By Kaihui Song The year 2025 recorded the largest net addition to global coal capacity in over a decade, driven Read more
From Paradigm Maintenance to Paradigm Shift: A Mood Change on Industrial Policy
By Richard Kozul-Wright Last month, the World Bank announced the return of Industrial Policy for Development in a report described Read more
Impact in Action: GDP Center at the 2026 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings
This week, global economic leaders, policymakers and civil society representatives gathered in Washington, DC for the 2026 Spring Meetings of Read more
Patient Capital, Long-Term Orientation and Global Imbalances: A Rebuttal
By Yan Wang The global economy in early 2026 is confronted with an escalating war in the Middle East causing Read more