Can aid buy foreign public support? Evidence from Chinese development finance

L Wellner, A Dreher, A Fuchs… - … and Cultural Change, 2025 - journals.uchicago.edu
Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in
reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, start, and end …

[PDF][PDF] China's foreign aid: Political determinants and economic effects

J Mueller - 2022 - cesi.econ.cuhk.edu.hk
This study jointly examines causal determinants and effects of Chinese foreign aid. Using
novel micro data, I first document that the Chinese state's paramount goal of domestic …

[PDF][PDF] Emulation or differentiation? china's development finance and traditional donor aid in developing countries

A Zeitz - Review of International Organizations, 2020 - alexandrazeitz.com
Foreign aid relationships are valuable to donors as a means of improving development
outcomes and influencing recipient country policy. The emergence of new donors can lead …

Emulate or differentiate? Chinese development finance, competition, and World Bank infrastructure funding

AO Zeitz - The Review of International Organizations, 2021 - Springer
Foreign aid relationships are valuable to donors as a means of improving development
outcomes and influencing recipient country policy. The emergence of new donors can lead …

Why give it away when you need it yourself? Understanding public support for foreign aid in China

Z Cheng, R Smyth - The Journal of Development Studies, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In this study we examine the determinants of public support for foreign aid in China. We find
that while political ideology and sense of national identity are the most important …

Misperceptions of Chinese Investments in Canada and their correction: evidence from a survey experiment

X Li, Y Kuang, L Zhang - … of Political Science/Revue canadienne de …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Foreign direct investment (FDI) from China has recently met with increasing public
opposition in many host nations. Why does the public respond less favourably to Chinese …

Aid, China, and growth: Evidence from a new global development finance dataset

A Dreher, A Fuchs, B Parks, A Strange… - American Economic …, 2021 - aeaweb.org
This article introduces a new dataset of official financing from China to 138 developing
countries between 2000 and 2014. It investigates whether Chinese development finance …

Does foreign aid bifurcate donor approval?: Patronage politics, winner–loser status, and public attitudes toward the donor

J Chen, SM Han - Studies in Comparative International Development, 2021 - Springer
While recent research has shown a growing interest in the consequences of China's foreign
aid giving, few have examined how public attitudes towards China in recipient countries …

Chinese aid and local political attitudes

Y Bai, Y Li, Y Wang - Economic Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates whether and how foreign aid generates pro-authority attitudes in
recipient regions. With a retrospection to the literature on the soft-power implications of aid …

Does Chinese FDI in Africa inspire support for a china model of development?

JF McCauley, MM Pearson, X Wang - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Africa is quickly becoming a centerpiece
of China's approach to promoting development overseas. To this point, however, little is …