Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110385 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 175
Publisher: 
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG), Göttingen
Abstract: 
China's provision of development finance to other countries is sizable but reliable information is scarce. We introduce a new open source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000 - 2011. We find that China's commitments amounted to approximately US$ 73 billion, of which US$ 15 billion are comparable to Official Development Assistance following OECD definitions. We provide details on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which suffers from omitted variable bias due to the exclusion of Chinese development finance. Our results show that sudden withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our findings highlight the importance of gathering more complete data on the development activities of "non-traditional donors" to better understand the link between aid and conflict.
Subjects: 
Development Finance
Foreign Aid
Non-DAC Donors
South-South Cooperation
China
Africa
Aid Shocks
Violent Armed Conflict
Civil War
Intrastate War
JEL: 
F35
F51
D74
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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