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Tuesday, July 6, 2021

The Road to Who Knows Where: What one highway project in Cameroon can tell us about the complexities of Chinese lending in Africa

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This post is by former CARI Research Assistant Alex Hardin and CARI Director Deborah Brautigam. Alex Hardin is now an M&E Associate at W...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Evaluating the Impact of China-Financed Power Projects on Electricity Access

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This guest blogpost is by SAIS PhD student Keyi Tang  Photo credit: ZSM In the last decade, China has overtaken the World Bank and the Afric...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Don’t miss our CARI/Washington Post Monkey Cage collaboration series

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From February to April 2021, the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage and the China Africa Research Initiative brought you a series exploring a var...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

In Memoriam: Professor Ian Taylor

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African Studies, International Relations, and our small world of China-Africa researchers, lost one of its towering figures on February 22. ...
Monday, December 14, 2020

French-language Webinar on French-Chinese Business Cooperation in Africa (Nov 10, 2020)

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Speakers: Thierry Pairault , Director Emeritus of Research, French National Centre for Scientific Research; Director, Research Center on Mod...
Monday, November 23, 2020

CARI Debt Analysis Outputs since April 2020

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Photo credit: Shutterstock Recent analysis by CARI researchers on Chinese lending in Africa What we know about China’s approach to debt reli...
Monday, August 17, 2020

What are Taiwan, China, and the United States Doing in Somaliland?

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(revised August 20). Taiwan has been courting Somaliland, a breakaway region of the failed state of Somalia. As Wikipedia puts it , "So...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Guest Post – Investment in Africa: China vs “traditional partners” – Part 2

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This guest post, the second of two, is by Dr. Thierry Pairault, research director at France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiq...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Guest Post – Investment in Africa: China vs “traditional partners” – Part 1

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This guest post, the first of two, is by Dr. Thierry Pairault, research director at France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiqu...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Did Benn Steil Get it Wrong About China's Intentions for BRI Debt Relief?

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On April 15, 2020, the G-20 announced a response to Covid-19's economic distress:  an unprecedented agreement to suspend official bilat...