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China’s Rapidly Evolving Lending Practices in Africa and the Americas

by Eric Olander

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.

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