New 23/04/2021 – by Kavydass Ramano, Katja Dombrowski Mauritian minister warns: “It is a matter of life and death” Read full article
15/04/2021 – by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi Global sustainability depends on financial integrity Read full article
Blog New 05/05/2021 – by Hans Dembowski Why Xi Jinping’s government is weaker than it seems If you think China is the irresistibly rising world power, spare a thought for Oscar winner Chloé Zhao Read
Development finance New 25/04/2021 – by James Sundquist China is offering alternatives to IMF programmes Why it may be a good thing that Chinese lending is reducing the clout of the IMF Read
CO2 emissions 21/03/2021 – by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi Make Xi keep his climate promises Environmental experts assess China’s CO2 emissions in report published by Heinrich Böll Foundation Read
Bilateral lending 19/01/2021 – by Claudia Isabel Rittel Understanding Chinese development loans Chinese agencies’ responsibilities are more transparent than generally assumed Read
Public finance 13/10/2020 – by Dereje Alemayehu, Hans Dembowski In the driver’s seat African governments must make economies more productive, gear them to sustainability and ensure their own financial viability Read
Political systems 16/09/2020 – by Praveen Jha Fighting poverty The comparison of India with China shows that formal democracy does not necessarily lead to more development-oriented governance Read
Asian giants 15/09/2020 – by Praveen Jha China is ahead of India Statistics show that Communist China has been outperforming formally democratic India for decades Read
Fossil fuel industry 29/04/2020 – by Nora Sausmikat, Quirin Jetschke China continues to finance coal power around the world China’s energy policy is full of contradictions Read
Retirement provisions 24/03/2020 – by Felix Lee From the iron rice bowl to the filial piety law China’s one-child policy is having catastrophic consequences for millions of pensioners Read
Tuberculosis 19/03/2020 – by Roli Mahajan Never disrupt treatment To make the world TB free, funding must increase dramatically Read
Blog 11/02/2020 – by Katja Dombrowski Coronavirus hurts Mauritius though no-one is infected so far Mauritius is a very small country far away from China – but its economy has close ties to that country Read
