(1) The relatively liberal Chinese magazine Caixin did an interview with me on April 7, 2013 .  (Sorry, it's all in Chinese but if y...

The debate about AidData's "crowd-sourcing" methodology is heating up (see comments on my post from April 30). A recent note...

Today,  a new paper and media-based dataset on Chinese aid/finance was released by the AidData project, in an event at the Center for Glob...

An article in the South China Morning Post "Rubbery Numbers Add Up to Big Role for China in Africa," (March 29, 2013) illustra...

At the fifth ministerial meeting of the Forum on China Africa Cooperation held in Beijing last summer, the Chinese announced a new pledge o...

I just came across this really interesting story of China Eximbank potentially co-financing a project in Ghana with US Eximbank.  Will fol...

Ph.D. student Johanna Jansson's new briefing, " The Sicomines agreement revisited: prudent Chinese banks and risk-taking Chinese...

A "snow day" here in Washington -- our universities have closed in anticipation, although outside our home, there's nothing b...

US companies active in Africa complain that they can't get support from the US government's official export credit agency, US Exim ...

South African journalist Khadija Sharife's article " Disappearing Diamonds " shines a spotlight on the links between the no...

Human Rights Watch has published a follow up report to their critical 2012 study. The new report, " Zambia Safety Gaps Threaten Copper...

I will be giving a talk, "China and Africa: Think Again," at the main campus of Johns Hopkins University, Tuesday, February 19, 2...

A team at the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just released a long-awaited study comparing US and Chinese export financing (...

This guest post by KF is reproduced with permission from the Comments section of my blog post, Nigerians Protest Conditions at Chinese Cons...

A reader asked this excellent question: Thanks for all your excellent articles and The Dragon's Gift - my understanding of Chinese i...

Breaking news:  Nigerian workers protest employment condition s at CCECC Lagos-Badagry highway construction site. As reported by Business D...

In The Dragon's Gift , I made the argument that the Chinese approach to funding aid projects employs a high degree of financial control...

Kit Gillett at The Global Mail interviewed me for a January 25, 2013 feature story on Africans in China, " Eastern Promise in Little ...

Adina Matisoff has come up with another hard-hitting look at Chinese development bank's overseas financing for Friends of the Ea...