Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows: China's Development Finance and the Aid-Conflict Nexus Revisited

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 5 billion are comparable to Official Development Assistance following...