GCI Policy Briefs

• ‘Small’ Belt, ‘Beautiful’ Road: China’s Cautious Return to Global Energy Finance

  November 2024

• Relative Risk and the Rate of Return: Chinese Loans to Africa Database, 2000-2023

  August 2024

• Going Green: Policy Opportunities and Challenges for Early Retirement of Overseas Chinese-Financed Coal Plants

  June 2024

• Firing Down: The Role of Asset Management Companies in Early Retirement of Coal-Fired Power Plants

  March 2024

• Green Horizons? China’s Global Energy Finance in 2022

  November 2023

• A New State of Lending: Chinese Loans to Africa

  September 2023

• Demystifying Chinese Overseas Lending and Development Finance: Why China Became the World’s Largest Official Bilateral Lender

  April 2023

• “Small is Beautiful”: A New Era in China’s Overseas Development Finance?

  January 2023

• Understanding China’s Global Power: 2022 Update

  October 2022

• China’s Interest-Free Loans to Africa: Uses and Cancellations

  September 2022

• The Potential for Early Coal Plant Retirement: Workshop Summary

  July 2022

• Debt Distress and Development Finance in the COVID-19 Era

  May 2022

• Chinese Loans to Africa During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  April 2022

• What Role for China’s Policy Banks in Latin America and the Caribbean?

  March 2022

• China-Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Bulletin, 2022 Edition

  March 2022

• China Overseas Finance Inventory Database – Technical Note

  March 2022

• Outlier or New Normal? Trends in China’s Global Energy Finance

  March 2022

• Global Risks and Investment Uncertainty: Chinese Global Energy Finance in 2018

  February 2022

• China’s Global Energy Finance, 2019

  February 2022

• Working to Avoid the Kindleberger Trap: China-US Collaboration on Development Finance

  December 2021

• Up in the Air: Potential Implications of Xi Jinping’s Green Energy and No-Overseas-Coal Announcement

  November 2021

• Zambia’s Chinese Debt in the Pandemic Era

  October 2021

• Risk Reversal: Accelerating Reform for Environmental Management of China’s Overseas Development Finance

  October 2021

• Can Escazú Turn Mining Green in the Lithium Triangle? Lofty Promises Meet a Thirsty Industry in the Desert

  August 2021

• Who Funds Overseas Coal Plants? The Need for Transparency and Accountability

  July 2021

• Twenty Years of Data on China’s Africa Lending

  March 2021

• Database Methodology Guidebook, 2023

  March 2021

• China’s Global Energy Finance, 2020

  February 2021

• China’s Global Power Database Methodology Note, 2020

  October 2020

• Understanding China’s Global Power

  October 2020

• Is China the Villain? Jobs, Wages and Building a Better U.S. Policy toward China

  October 2020

• China-Latin American Economic Bulletin, 2020 edition

  March 2020

• Scaling Back: Chinese Development Finance in Latin American and Caribbean, 2019

  March 2020

• China’s Global Energy Finance (CGEF) 2019

  February 2020

• The Varieties of Chinese Capital in the Developing World

  October 2019

• Managing Risk in Chinese Overseas Development: Lessons for the Andean Amazon

  March 2019

• Slowing Down, Powering Up: 2017 Chinese Energy Development Finance

  March 2018

• Developing Countries Lead the way for Global Economic Governance

  October 2017

• China’s Global Energy Finance Database 2016

  March 2017

• Repositioning Chinese Development Finance in Latin America: Opportunities for Green Finance

  August 2016

• China goes global with development banks

  April 2016

• Capital Account Liberalization in China: A Cautionary Tale

  July 2014

• Profiting from Precaution: How China’s Policy Banks Can Enhance Social and Environmental Standards

  July 2013

• China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization

  October 2010