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Reaction to New Data That Reveals “Chinese Overseas Lending Collapse”

by Eric Claude Olander

Findings from Boston University’s new database on Chinese development finance patterns that revealed a “collapse” of overseas lending sparked a lot of conversation online yesterday from leading development economists in the U.S. and Europe.

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