Category: Academy

In case you missed last week's webinar hosted by CARI Director Deborah Brautigam and Kevin Gallagher, director of Boston University's Global Policy Development Center, where they introduced the new interactive loan database and discussed the latest World Bank data about Africa's burgeoning debt crisis, ...

The team at the China-Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C, has been poring through the treasure trove of information contained in the World Bank's newly released International Debt Statistics database. "For decades, researchers have ...

By Chazha Ludo Macheng and Atharv Gupta As COVID-19 has ravaged the globe, governments have had to face the grim reality of overwhelmed medical systems. The impact has been morbid, with over 7 million confirmed cases and over 400,000 deaths

If you missed last Thursday's webinar by the China-Africa Research Initiative (CARI) at Johns Hopkins University about Chinese debt relief in Africa, the slides used in the presentation are now available online. Since CARI's data and analysis on the Chinese debt ...

A trio of researchers at the China-Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. has published a new working paper that provides some badly-need context about yesterday's announcement by Chinese President Xi Jinping to cancel a small segment of Beijing's loan ...

China's Acting Ambassador to South Africa, Li Nan, spoke on Monday about the obstacles facing China-Africa relations and provided a list of challenges that he feels need to be overcome. This is not the kind of tone we would have heard from Acting Ambassador Li's predecessor, Lin ...

Pursuing a master's degree in China-Africa relations is still quite difficult to do in many countries given the lack of dedicated programs or specialized teaching staff.  But that may be starting to change. Hong Kong's Lingnan University announced on Friday that ...

A new report by the Beijing-based consultancy Development Reimagined provides some badly-needed context for the broader discussion about the burgeoning debt crisis in certain African countries.  The analysis focused on whether African countries will have sufficient funds available to provide ...

The Council on Foreign Relations in New York organized a virtual conference this week to discuss U.S. perspectives on "China's Growing Footprint in Africa." The first part of the discussion focused largely on comparing/contrasting U.S. and Chinese economic development strategies on the continent ...

The enormous amounts of negative news coverage about China's relationship with Africa that followed the dramatic events in Guangzhou back in April and, more recently, the spread of COVID-19 on the continent, has led to a new consensus among Chinese stakeholders as to who, precisely, is responsible. ...

Georgetown University Assistant Professor Ken Ochieng’ Opalo published a blog post on his personal site this weekend that aimed to debunk the widely-held perception in Washington that China is engaging in a form of "debt-trap diplomacy" in Africa.

So long as there's no official word from the Chinese government as to how they specifically plan to address the $150 billion of outstanding debts that African governments owe Bejing, everyone's speculating as to how they'll likely proceed. Professor Deborah Brautigam, ...