By way of introduction to the four papers that follow, we chart some key parameters of
debate about finance and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In particular, we argue that the …

Both project management and international development came of age as scholarly and
practice domains in the 20th century. They share a central concern with organizing work and …

Relations between the US and China have deteriorated to their lowest point since their
rapprochement in the 1970s. To make sense of contemporary geopolitics, our objective in …

China's growing economic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America has been
a source of major controversy. The official Chinese position maintains that the growth of …

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for
domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has …

China's overseas financing is a distinct form of patient capital that marshals the country's
vast domestic resources to create commercial opportunities internationally. Its long-term risk …

This paper seeks to demystify and characterize China's official development finance by
examining lending mechanisms of China's two policy banks—China Development Bank and …

The dominance of free markets around the world is the defining feature of contemporary
globalization. This current state of affairs is historically linked to the Washington Consensus …

Cofinancing from government agencies, development banks, and private actors is
acknowledged as an important tool to bridge the infrastructure finance gap in developing …

China's Belt and Road Initiative has raised important questions about the risk of debt
problems in less-developed countries. The risks are especially acute for the small and …