China's Rapidly Evolving Lending Practices in Africa and the Americas
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It wasn't that long ago when China lent tens of billions of dollars to developing countries in Africa and the Americas to build vast amounts of badly-needed infrastructure. Now, it appears, those days are over. 

Concerns over debt sustainability, corruption, and poor planning have all led to a dramatic fall-off in Chinese lending in those regions.

Deborah Brautigam, director of the China-Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, and Kevin Gallager, head of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University join Eric & Cobus this week to talk about what the latest data on Chinese lending reveals and how Chinese development finance is rapidly evolving.

SHOW NOTES:

• CARI Report: Twenty Years of Data on China's Africa Lending: https://bit.ly/3rzgksu
• Chinese Interactive Loan Database at Boston University: https://chinaafricaloandata.org/

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