Estimating China's Foreign Aid

The IDS Bulletin published in July 2018 an article titled "Estimating China's Foreign Aid Using New Data" by Naohiro Kitano.

There is a long-running debate about the amount of China's OECD-equivalent foreign aid. In this article, Naohiro Kitano updates the estimates of China's global foreign aid from 2001 to 2014 and compares the results with the foreign aid from the OECD's Development Assistance Committee members. Kitano, who has studied this issue in recent years, estimates China's net global foreign aid decreased from $5.4 billion in 2013 to $4.9 billion in 2014. Historically, Africa has received about half of China's aid.