China is now the lender of first resort for much of the developing world, but Beijing has
fueled speculation among policymakers, scholars, and journalists by shrouding its grant …

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 …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial distribution of
economic activity within subnational regions across a large number of developing countries …

Among the many drivers of health inequities, this article focuses on important, yet
insufficiently understood, international-level determinants: economic globalization and the …

Following calls for a more disaggregated approach to studying the consequences of IMF
programs, scholars have developed new datasets of IMF-mandated policy reforms, or …

Using repeated cross-sectional survey data, we analyze whether China's growing economic
engagement in Latin America has an effect on citizens' perceptions of China within 18 Latin …

This article highlights an important yet insufficiently understood international-level
determinant of inequality in the developing world: structural adjustment programs by the …

We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of bilateral foreign aid on economic
growth in a sample of 97 recipient countries over the 1974–2013 period. Our instrument …

The administrative ability of the state to deliver effective policy is essential for economic
development. While sociologists have long devoted attention to domestic forces …

Abstract Although the International Monetary Fund (IMF) claims that poverty reduction is one
of its objectives, some studies show that IMF borrower countries experience higher rates of …