GCI Journal Articles & Papers

• The Lender of First Resort? Chinese Swap Lines, the IMF and the Changing International Financial Architecture

  April 2025

• Financing Technological Innovation in China: Neo-developmental Financial Statecraft through Government Guidance Funds

  April 2025

• The Political Economy of Variations in Energy Debt Financing by Two Chinese Policy Banks in Africa

  January 2025

• China’s Creditor Diversification in Africa: Impacts and Challenges of Infrastructure Debt-Financing by Chinese Commercial Creditors

  November 2024

• Chasing the Sun: The Political Economy of Solar Investment in the Global South

  November 2024

• The Political and Pragmatic Determinants of Chinese Development Finance in Latin America, 2008-2019

  September 2024

• Africa Takes the Wheel: The Role of Host States in Shaping Outcomes of Chinese-Supported Power Generation Projects in Africa

  August 2024

• Chinese Ties and Low-carbon Industrialization in Africa

  July 2024

• The Evolution of the New Development Bank

  July 2024

• Measuring Energy Transition Away From Fossil Fuels: A New Index

  July 2024

• Incremental PM2.5 Ambient Concentrations and Mortality Risks from Proposed, Large-scale Coal-fired Power Plants in Indonesia: A Modelling Analysis

  June 2024

• Direct Impacts and Spatial Spillovers: The Impact of Chinese Infrastructure Projects on Economic Activities in sub-Saharan Africa

  May 2024

• Green Natural Capital, the Environmental Kuznets Curve and Development Financing in the Global South

  April 2024

• The Role of Development Banks in Catalyzing the Infrastructure of South America in the 21st Century

  March 2024

• Calculated Capital: The Business Logic Behind Chinese Lending in the Global South

  March 2024

• A Survey of China Within and Beyond the Bretton Woods System

  January 2024

• Who Finances Energy Projects in Africa?

  December 2023

• The Deforestation and Biodiversity Risks of Power Plant Projects in Southeast Asia: A Big Data Spatial Analytical Framework

  November 2023

• Empirical Analysis of Chinese Overseas Power Plant Investments: Likelihood of Suspensions and Associated Environmental Risks

  September 2023

• Does Manufacturing Matter? Forward Linkages and Downstream Growth in the Malaysian Solar Industry

  August 2023

• Pushed to Finance? Assessing Technology Export as a Motivator for Coal Finance Abroad

  August 2023

• Generating Green Growth: Green Transformation in the Global South and Roles of Development Finance

  July 2023

• China and Africa: A New Narrative on Debt Sustainability and Infrastructure Financing

  July 2023

• Opportunities for US-China Engagement on Development Finance for Overseas Renewable Energy

  April 2023

• Evaluating the Potential of Asset Management Companies to Relieve Global Debt Distress: The Role of Development Finance Institutions

  April 2023

• Cofinancing and Infrastructure Project Outcomes in Chinese Lending and Overseas Development Finance

  April 2023

• Capitalizing on Coal: Early Retirement Options for China-Financed Coal Plants in Southeast Asia and Beyond

  March 2023

• The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones: The Cases of Ethiopia and Vietnam

  February 2023

• China’s Global Development Finance Poses Heterogeneous Risks to Coastal and Marine Socio-ecological Systems

  December 2022

• Assessing Methane Emissions From the Natural Gas Industry: Reviewing the Case of China in a Comparative Framework

  December 2022

• Transformation Towards Renewable Energy Systems: Evaluating the Role of Development Financing Institutions

  November 2022

• The Belt and Road Initiative and the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment: Global Infrastructure Initiatives in Comparison

  November 2022

• China’s Paid-In Capital: Identifying and Analyzing China’s Overseas Development Investment Funds

  October 2022

• A Shifting Course: Environmental and Social Governance During and After the “China Boom” in the Amazon Basin

  October 2022

• Swimming Upstream: Chinese Overseas Investment in Aquaculture

  September 2022

• Fragmented Motives and Politics: The Belt and Road Initiative in China

  August 2022

• Telling Chinese Stories Well: Two New Mechanisms of Chinese Influence on Foreign Media

  August 2022

• China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Indonesia: Mapping and Mitigating Environmental and Social Risks

  July 2022

• Leading Sector and Dual Economy: How Indonesia and Malaysia Mobilized Chinese Capital in Mineral Processing

  July 2022

• To End Coal, Adapt to Regional Realities

  July 2022

• Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Changes through the Lens of SDGs in Semarang, Indonesia

  June 2022

• Government Shareholders, Wasted Resources and Climate Ambitions: Why is China Still Building New Coal-Fired Power Plants?

  May 2022

• Assessing the Climate Change Exposure of Foreign Direct Investment

  March 2022

• Debt Restructuring in Africa: Building Public Assets and Addressing Bottlenecks for Low-Carbon Economic Transformation

  March 2022

• The Globalization of China’s Coal Industry: The Role of Development Banks

  February 2022

• Estimating the Employment and Fiscal Consequences of Thermal Coal Phase-Out in China

  February 2022

• Plant Conversions and Abatement Technologies Cannot Prevent Stranding of Power Plant Assets in 2°C Scenarios

  February 2022

• China’s Withdrawal from Overseas Coal in Context

  January 2022

• What Drives Pakistan’s Coal-Fired Power Plant Construction Boom? Understanding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’s Energy Portfolio

  January 2022

• Mitigating Social‑Ecological Risks From the Surge in China’s Overseas Investment: An Indonesian Profile

  January 2022

• Pushing Out or Pulling In? The Determinants of Chinese Energy Finance in Developing Countries

  January 2022

• Assessing the Status of Existing and Tentative Marine World Heritage Areas Reveals Opportunities to Better Achieve World Heritage Convention Goals

  December 2021

• The Effect of Foreign Investment on Asian Coal Power Plants

  December 2021

• Competing or Complementary Labels? Estimating Spillovers in Chinese Green Building Certification

  November 2021

• Open-Source Methods for Estimating Health Risks of Fine Particulate Matter from Coal-Fired Power Plants: A Demonstration from Karachi, Pakistan

  November 2021

• Accelerated Shifts in Terrestrial Life Zones Under Rapid Climate Change

  November 2021

• The Sources of China’s Vision for Global Economic Governance

  September 2021

• Shining a Light on China’s Uneven Regional Energy Development Overseas

  September 2021

• China’s Uneven Regional Energy Investments

  September 2021

• Brady Bonds and the Potential for Debt Restructuring in the Post-Pandemic Era

  September 2021

• Geolocated Dataset of Chinese Overseas Development Finance

  September 2021

• Risks to Global Biodiversity and Indigenous Lands from China’s Overseas Development Finance

  September 2021

• Financing Carbon Lock-In in Developing Countries: Bilateral Financing for Power Generation Technologies from China, Japan and the United States

  August 2021

• Going Global: Exporting China’s Hydropower Expansion

  July 2021

• Domestic Push Meets Foreign Pull: The Political Economy of Chinese Development Finance for Hydropower Worldwide

  July 2021

• Butting in or Rounding Out? China’s Role in Latin America’s Investment Diversification

  July 2021

• The New Coal Champion of the World: The Political Economy of Chinese Overseas Development Finance for Coal-Fired Power Plants

  May 2021

• An Empirical Analysis of the Environmental Performance of China’s Overseas Coal Plants

  March 2021

• Bailouts From Beijing: How China Functions as an Alternative to the IMF

  March 2021

• China-Latin America Economic Bulletin, 2021

  February 2021

• Mind the Gap: Grounding Development Finance and Safeguards through Land Compensation on the Laos-China Belt and Road Corridor

  February 2021

• Laying the Tracks: The Political Economy of Railway Development in Ethiopia’s Railway Sector and Implications for Technology Transfer

  February 2021

• China Can Help Solve the Debt and Environmental Crises

  January 2021

• New Kids on The Block: China’s Arrival in Brazil’s Electric Sector

  January 2021

• Inadequate Demand and Reluctant Supply: The Limits of Chinese Official Development Finance for Foreign Renewable Power

  November 2020

• Competing or Complementary Labels? Estimating Spillovers in Chinese Green Building Certification

  October 2020

• China’s Global Power: Estimating Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in the Electric Power Sector

  October 2020

• Chinese Overseas Development Financing of Electric Power Generation: A Comparative Analysis

  October 2020

• Greening the Belt and Road Initiative with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

  September 2020

• From Politics to Business: How a State-led Fund is Investing in Africa? The Case of the China-Africa Development Fund

  February 2020

• Derailing Development: China’s Railway Projects and Financing Coalitions in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines

  February 2020

• Chinese Development Finance for Solar and Wind Power Abroad

  February 2020

• China in Latin America: Major Impacts and Avenues for Constructive Engagement

  August 2019

• State Actors, Market Games: Credit Guarantees and the Funding of China Development Bank

  May 2019

• The Environmental Impact of China-financed Coal-fired Power Plants in South East Asia

  May 2019

• Globalization as Domestic Adjustment: Chinese Development Finance and the Globalization of China’s Coal Industry

  May 2019

• Fueling Global Energy Finance: The Emergence of China in Global Energy Investment

  April 2019

• Development Banks and Socio-environmental Risk: In Search of an Improved Prognosis for Sensitive Development Projects

  March 2019

• Fragmentation and Mobilization: Domestic Politics of the Belt and Road in China

  February 2019

• Can South–South Cooperation Compete? The Development Bank of Latin America and the Islamic Development Bank

  January 2019

• Climate Transition Risk and Development Finance: A Carbon Risk Assessment of China’s Overseas Energy Portfolios

  November 2018

• Renewable Energy: The Trillion Dollar Opportunity for Chinese Overseas Investment

  November 2018

• Moving the Green Belt and Road Initiative: From Words to Actions

  November 2018

• Investment Coalitions and Public Support: A Survey Experimental Approach to Chinese Investment in Myanmar

  November 2018

• Greening Development Lending in the Americas: Trends and Determinants

  October 2018

• Estimating Chinese Foreign Investment in the Electric Power Sector

  October 2018

• Energizing Development Finance? The Benefits and Risks of China’s Development Finance in the Global Energy Sector

  October 2018

• Burning for Development: A Case Study on Socioeconomic, Environmental and Climate Change Impacts of the Barapukuria Coal Plant

  September 2018

• Official Aid or Export Credit: China’s Policy Banks and the Reshaping of Development Finance

  July 2018

• China-Latin America Economic Bulletin, 2018

  April 2018

• Economy in Command: Unpacking the Domestic Politics of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

  February 2018

• Banking on Energy: The Determinants of Export Credit Agency Energy Financing from China and Japan

  January 2018

• Standardizing Sustainable Development: A Comparison of Development Banks in the Americas

  August 2017

• China – Latin America Database 2017

  February 2017

• The Panda’s Pawprint: The Environmental Impact of the China-led Re-primarization in Latin America and the Caribbean

  February 2017

• China-Latin America Economic Bulletin, 2017 Edition

  January 2017

• Latin America’s China Boom

  September 2016

• The Sustainable Infrastructure Finance of China Development Bank: Composition, Experience and Policy Implications

  July 2016

• The Globalization of Chinese Energy Companies: The Role of State Finance

  June 2016

• Fueling Growth and Financing Risk: The Benefits and Risks of China’s Development Finance in the Global Energy Sector

  May 2016

• The Belt & Road Initiative as Power Resource: Lessons from Japan

  April 2016

• Greening Development Finance in the Americas

  December 2015

• Housing Price Volatility and the Capital Account in China

  June 2015

• Chinese Investment in Peru’s Mining Industry: Blessing or Curse?

  April 2015

• China in Mexico: Some Environmental and Employment Dimensions

  April 2015

• A Line in the Equatorial Forests: Chinese Investment and the Environmental and Social Impacts of Extractive Industries in Ecuador

  April 2015

• Colombia and China: Social and Environmental Impact of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

  April 2015

• Chinese Incidence on the Chilean Solar Power Sector

  April 2015

• China’s Influence on Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: A Growing Force in the State of Mato Grosso

  April 2015

• An Assessment of the Environmental and Social Impacts of Chinese Trade and FDI in Bolivia

  April 2015

• FDI and Trade: Is China Relevant for the Future of Our Environment? The Case of Argentina

  April 2015

• China in Latin America: Lessons for South-South Cooperation and Sustainable Development

  April 2015

• The State and the Firm: China’s Energy Governance in Context

  March 2015

• Bartering Globalization: China’s Commodity-backed Finance in Africa and Latin America

  July 2014

• NAFTA’s Uninvited Guest: China and the Disintegration of North American Trade

  June 2014

• Exporting National Champions: China’s OFDI Finance in Comparative Perspective

  June 2014

• Crossing the Ocean By Feeling For the BITs: Investor-State Arbitration in China’s Bilateral Investment Treaties

  May 2014

• China and the Latin America Commodities Boom: A Critical Assessment

  February 2009