Banking on Beijing
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Banking on Beijing

The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program

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Banking on Beijing

The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program

About this book

China is now the lender of first resort for much of the developing world, but Beijing has fueled speculation among policymakers, scholars, and journalists by shrouding its grant-giving and lending activities in secrecy. Introducing a systematic and transparent method of tracking Chinese development projects around the world, this book explains Beijing's motives and analyzes the intended and unintended effects of its overseas investments. Whereas China almost exclusively provided aid during the twentieth century, its twenty-first century transition from 'benefactor' to 'banker' has had far-reaching impacts in low-income and middle-income countries that are not widely understood. Its use of debt rather than aid to bankroll big-ticket infrastructure projects creates new opportunities for developing countries to achieve rapid socio-economic gains, but it has also introduced major risks, such as corruption, political capture, and conflict. This book will be of interest to policymakers, students and scholars of international political economy, Chinese politics and foreign policy, economic development, and international relations.

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Yes, you can access Banking on Beijing by Axel Dreher,Andreas Fuchs,Bradley Parks,Austin Strange,Michael J. Tierney in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & International Relations. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. 1 Why Do We Know So Little about the Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program?
  11. 2 The Journey to Global Creditor: A Brief History of Chinese Development Finance
  12. 3 Counting and Comparing Apples and Dragon Fruits
  13. 4 Follow the Money: Where Does Chinese Government Funding Go?
  14. 5 Apples and Dragon Fruits: How Does China Allocate Aid and Credit across Countries?
  15. 6 Aid à la Carte: The Subnational Distribution of Chinese Development Finance
  16. 7 Paving the Way to Growth and Development?: The Socioeconomic Impacts of Chinese Development Projects
  17. 8 Poisonous Dragon Fruits?: The Side Effects of Chinese Development Finance
  18. 9 Banking on the Belt and Road: The Future of Global Development Finance
  19. Postscript: Analysis of China’s Overseas Development Program During the BRI Era With an Updated Dataset
  20. References
  21. Index