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'Ground-Truthing' Chinese Development Finance in Africa: Field Evidence from South Africa and Uganda

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  • Edwin Muchapondwa
  • Daniel Nielson
  • Bradley Parks
  • Austin M. Strange
  • Michael J. Tierney

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A new methodology, Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows (TUFF), allows us to systematically gather open-source information—e.g. news reports, case studies, project inventories from embassy websites, and grant and loan data published by recipient governments—about Chinese development finance activities in Africa that can be updated and improved through crowd-sourcing.

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  • Edwin Muchapondwa & Daniel Nielson & Bradley Parks & Austin M. Strange & Michael J. Tierney, 2014. "'Ground-Truthing' Chinese Development Finance in Africa: Field Evidence from South Africa and Uganda," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2014-031, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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