China en América Latina, lecciones para la cooperación Sur-Sur Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar y la Oficina Región Andina de la Fundación Rosa Luxemburg Rebecca Ray presents China en América Latina study May 11, 2017
China ¿el nuevo mejor amigo de Latinoamérica? Voz of America Rebecca Ray interviewed April 19, 2017
China’s two global policy banks—the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China– are becoming the largest sources of energy finance for governments across the world. In 2016, these banks provided upwards of $43.2 billion in energy financing—close to triple the average annual energy lending of the World Bank and all the Western-backed multi-lateral […]
Kevin Gallagher on China-Latin America Relationship CGNT America, March 13, 2017
By Rebecca Ray, Kevin P. Gallagher, Andrés López and Cynthia Sanborn Over the last decade, Latin American countries have enacted some of the most ambitious environmental and social protections in the world. But these hard-won protections faced their first serious test in the recent China-led commodities boom, as growth exploded in intrinsically-risky sectors like mining and […]
The Inter-American Dialogue’s China and Latin America program and Boston University’s Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) estimate that China Development Bank and China Eximbank issued approximately $21 billion in loans to LAC governments and state-owned firms in 2016. This report highlights some of the primary features of Chinese lending over the past year. Information on the various loans issued to Latin […]
In the last ten years, China has grown into a major trade and investment partner for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It is now South America’s top export destination and the second-largest source of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows for the LAC region. However, this new relationship has also come to symbolize the trend […]
In 2016, Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) economic relationship with China showed little change. Exports were flat, while investment and finance fell slightly. However, one sector in particular reinforced its centrality in all three major channels: extraction. China’s interest in LAC as a source of extractive raw materials has remained, even as other […]
Kevin Gallagher on the economic relations between China and Peru CCTV America Kevin Gallagher video-interview November 18, 2016
Rohini Kamal quoted in Circle of Blue article entitled, “Diversifying China’s FOREX Reserves and Development Strategy.” Circle of Blue, November 2, 2016.