By Lucas Engel On Thursday, September 21, the Boston University Global Development Policy Center hosted a webinar to introduce a new update to the Chinese Loans to Africa (CLA) Database and discuss past and current trends in Chinese lending to the continent. Oyintarelado Moses, Data Analyst and Database Manager at the GDP Center presented and […]
A new update to the Chinese Loans to Africa (CLA) Database, managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, estimates that from 2000-2022, 39 Chinese lenders provided 1,243 loans amounting to $170.08 billion to 49 African governments and seven regional institutions. For the years 2021 and 2022 combined, the CLA Database recorded a total […]
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is experiencing continued low economic growth projections amid a stalling COVID-19 recovery, rampant inflation and the knock-on effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Amid this challenging economic time for LAC, what are the latest developments on trade, investment, development finance, debt and […]
By Hua-Ke (Kate) Chi On Thursday, January 26, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a webinar discussion for the 2023 update of the China’s Overseas Development Finance (CODF) Database, a global, harmonized, validated and geolocated database recording loan commitments from two major development finance institutions (DFIs) in China, the China Development Bank […]
After providing a staggering amount of finance for overseas development projects in the wake of the global financial crisis, Chinese overseas development finance has been on a general downward trend for several years. What is the status of China’s overseas development finance in the COVID-19 era? And looking forward, how likely is China to return […]
By Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses and Jyhjong Hwang The 2022 update to the Chinese Loans to Africa (CLA) Database, managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center, recorded 11 new loan commitments worth $1.9 billion from Chinese lenders to African government borrowers in 2020. This low amount, not seen since the mid-2000s, is down […]
In 2020, the Chinese Loans to Africa (CLA) Database, managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, recorded 11 new loan commitments worth $1.9 billion from Chinese lenders to African government borrowers. This low amount, not seen since the mid-2000s, is down 77 percent from 2019 volumes, when Chinese lenders signed 32 loan agreements […]
By Pedro Henrique Batista Barbosa Since 2010, when the first Chinese investment in Brazil’s electricity sector happened, China’s presence in the Brazilian electricity sector has expanded considerably in a relatively short period of time. Through a combination of mergers and acquisitions (M&A, or brownfield investments) and greenfield foreign direct investments (GFDI) and benefiting from an […]
In a new working paper, Pedro Henrique Batista Barbosa examines the Chinese investments and loans in Brazil’s electric sector, more specifically in hydro, wind, solar, coal, biomass, oil and nuclear power segments from their onset in mid-2000s until 2019. Chinese presence in the Brazilian electricity sector has increased consistently and significantly in three aspects: investments, […]