torsdag 20. november 2014

African presidents ‘use China aid for patronage politics’

China says it spends more than half of its foreign aid in 51 African countries, sending $80bn between 2000 and 2012. But most of that aid went to areas where national leaders were born, indicating a strong political bias, according to a geotagged database of aid contractspublished by AidData, an open-source data centre. Read more