How does Chinese Official Development Assistance impact the Official Development Assistance efforts of traditional and other emerging donors?

在过去的四十年里，中国经历了奇迹般的社会经济转型，从一个官方发展援助（ODA）的净受援国转变为一个主要捐助国。中国的ODA正迅速成为许多发展中国家收入、支持和双边谅解的主要替代来源，更好地理解ODA的分配、动机和中国的作用是理解全球ODA及其有效性的关键。各国的官方发展援助组合似乎反映了其同行和竞争对手的官方发展援助组合，因为它们寻求对受援国的资源和机构施加影响。这为对外援助中捐助者竞争的实证研究增添了动力.因此，我的建议旨在回答中国的ODA是否排挤其他捐助国的ODA;哪些国家的ODA努力最受中国ODA分配的影响;任何竞争机制的触发因素;以及在哪些部门这种情况最普遍。由于中国政府没有明确披露ODA数据，我将使用现有的数据集和其他代理数据进行援助。本文拟考察各主要援助国的ODA与中国ODA之间的经验关系，以回答哪些国家的ODA努力最受中国ODA的影响。由于中国的官方发展援助经常针对大型的基础设施项目，因此可以检验竞争机制是否在最接近中国官方发展援助最常见的领域最强。

China has experienced miraculous socioeconomictransformation in the last four decades, transitioning from anet recipient of Official Development Assistance (ODA), tothat of a leading donor. Chinese ODA is fast becoming apredominant and alternative source of income, support andbilateral understanding for many developing countries.Better understanding ODA allocation, its motives and therole of China are key to understanding global ODA and itsefficacy. It is plausible that countries' ODA portfolios reflectthat of their peers and rivals, as they seek to gain influenceover resources and institutions in recipient countries. Thisadds impetus to the empirical study of competition amongdonors in foreign aid. As such, my proposal aims to answerwhether Chinese ODA crowds out other donors' ODA; whichcountries' ODA efforts are most influenced by Chinese ODAdistribution; the triggers of any competition mechanism;and in which sectors this is most prevalent. Since theChinese government does not explicitly disclose ODA data,I will instead use existing datasets and other proxies foraid. I intend to investigate the empirical relationshipsbetween the ODA of each key donor in turn over time andChinese ODA, to answer which countries' ODA efforts aremost influenced by Chinese ODA. Since Chinese ODA oftentargets large, infrastructure-based ODA projects, one cantest whether the competition mechanism is strongest inareas closest to that most common of Chinese ODA.