Kevin P. Gallagher (@KevinPGallagher) is the director of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University's Pardee School for Global Studies. China has become the world's largest development ...

The Great Wall Apartments, a Chinese style residential compound in Nairobi, Kenya. Image Courtesy of Go West Project The factory of the world has a new export: urbanism. More and more Chinese-made ...

What are the implications of the turning period for China’s continuing economic development, for China’s interaction with the global economy and for economic policy? Here I focus on four of the most ...

In what has come to be referred to as the Great Power Competition (GPC), malign, revisionist powers, like the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia, challenge nations and institutions across the ...

The announcement of $60 billion in financing for Africa sparked anger at home — and the government bears the blame. Chinese children hold flags during a rehearsal prior to the opening of the Forum on ...

Chinese development finance in Africa is unusual in that much of the financial flows from China do not constitute official development aid (ODA). Instead, much of it comes in the form of export ...

For decades, the sprawling six-acre Metropolis parcel in downtown Los Angeles sat barren as successive real estate busts derailed the promise of a $1-billion “city within a city.” Now, in an ...

Just how entrenched is China in Africa these days? The Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing in September highlighted China’s expansive economic diplomacy – and $60 billion pledge in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I travel the world reporting on emerging markets and China overseas. Africa has become the next frontier for infrastructure ...

For a long time, China's foreign aid spending was best described in the words of Winston Churchill: "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." The country withholds information from the ...