【主題】Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows: China's Development Finance and the Aid-Conflict Nexus Revisited
【報告人】Andreas Fuchs，2012年獲德國哥廷根大學（University of Goettingen）經濟學博士，現為德國海德伯格大學（Heidelberg University）博士後研究員。主要從事國際政治經濟學、發展經濟學、國際貿易和中國的政治經濟學等研究。研究成果已經發表在世界一流期刊，如Journal of International Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, World Development, World Economy等。
【時間】2014年9月3日（周三）下午3:00-4:30
【地點】伟德平台怎么样中财大廈1032室（國貿學院會議室）
【論文摘要】China’s development finance is sizable but reliable information is scarce. To address critical information gaps, 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. Our initial data collection efforts found that China’s official finance commitments amount to approximately US$ 73 billion over the 2000-2011 period. We provide details on 1,511 non-investment projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on the aid-conflict nexus. Our results show that sudden withdrawals of “traditional” aid are only more likely to induce conflict in the absence of sufficient alternative funding from China. More broadly, these findings highlight the importance of gathering better data on the development activities of China and other non-traditional donors to better understand the link between foreign aid and conflict.
