Commentaries
2023. Deborah Brautigam, “The Developing World’s Coming Debt Crisis,” Foreign Affairs, February 20, 2023.
2022. Deborah Brautigam, “The ABCs of China’s GDI,” East Asia Forum, December 22.
2022. Deborah Brautigam, “Time For a New Sovereign Debt Restructuring Regime: Can Chinese creditors navigate through a potential global debt crisis?” The International Economy, Summer 2022.
2022. Deborah Brautigam, “Mombasa Port: how Kenya’s auditor-general misread China’s Standard Gauge Railway contracts,” The Conversation, May 16, 2022.
2021. Lucas Engel, Reid Piercey and Deborah Brautigam, “Why France and Germany won’t join China’s ‘Africa Quad’, East Asia Forum, October 19, 2021.
2021. Deborah Brautigam and Meg Rithmire, “The Chinese Debt Trap is a Myth,” The Atlantic, February 2021.
2021. Kevin Acker, Deborah Brautigam and Yufan Huang, "The pandemic has worsened Africa’s debt crisis. China and other countries are stepping in", The Washington Post, February 2021.
2021. Deborah Brautigam, “How Zambia and China Co-Created a Debt "Tragedy of the Commons",” SAIS-CARI Policy Brief No. 61.
2020. Deborah Brautigam, “China, the World Bank, and African Debt: A War of Words”, The Diplomat, Aug 17, 2020.
2020. Deborah Brautigam and Yufan Huang, “Putting a Dollar Amount on China’s Loans to the Developing World,” The Diplomat, June 24, 2020.
2020. Deborah Brautigam, “Chinese Debt Relief: Fact and Fiction,” The Diplomat, April 15, 2020.
2020. Deborah Brautigam and Won Kidane, “China, Africa, and Debt Distress: Fact and Fiction about Asset Seizures,” SAIS-CARI Policy Brief No. 47.
2020. Kevin Acker, Deborah Brautigam, and Yufan Huang, “Debt Relief with Chinese Characteristics,” SAIS-CARI Policy Brief No. 46.
2019. Deborah Brautigam, “Is China the World’s Loan Shark?” New York Times, Opinion, April 26.
2019. Deborah Brautigam, “Misdiagnosing the Chinese Infrastructure Push,” American Interest, April 4.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, “Xi Jinping is visiting Africa this week. Here’s why China is such a popular development partner,” Washington Post, Monkey Cage, July 24.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, “U.S. politicians get China in Africa all wrong,” Washington Post, The WorldPost, April 12.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, Xinshen Diao, Margaret McMillan and Jed Silver, “Chinese Investment in Africa: How much do we know?” PEDL Policy Insight Series. December 2018.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, Tang Xiaoyang and Ying Xia, “What kinds of Chinese "Geese" are flying to Africa? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms,” SAIS-China Africa Research Initiative Policy Brief No. 24/2018.
2018. Janet Eom, Deborah Brautigam and Lina Benabdallah. “The Path Ahead: The 7th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.” SAIS China-Africa Research Initiative Briefing Paper 01/2018.
2017. Lucas Atkins, Deborah Brautigam, Yunnan Chen, and Jyhjong Hwang, “Challenges of and opportunities from the commodity price slump,” SAIS-China Africa Research Initiative Policy Brief 01/2017.
2016. Jyhjong Hwang, Deborah Brautigam, and Janet Eom, “How Chinese Money is Transforming Africa: It's Not What You Think,” SAIS-China Africa Research Initiative Policy Brief No. 11/2016.
2016. Janet Eom, Jyhjong Hwang, Ying Xia and Deborah Brautigam. “Looking Back And Moving Forward: An Analysis Of China-Africa Economic Trends And The Outcomes Of The 2015 Forum On China Africa Cooperation,” SAIS-China Africa Research Initiative Policy Brief 09/2016.
2016. Deborah Brautigam, Jyhjong Hwang, and Lu Wang. “Chinese Financed Hydropower Projects In Sub-Saharan Africa,” SAIS-China Africa Research Initiative Policy Brief 08/2016.
2015. Deborah Brautigam. “Don’t get excited, China is not the new aid superpower,” The Guardian, November 3.
2015. Deborah Brautigam. “Chinese Aid Policy,” in Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shang-jin Wei, and Xiaobo Zhang, eds. Oxford Companion to the Economics of China.
2015. Deborah Brautigam. “Five Myths About Chinese Investment in Africa,” Foreign Policy, December 4.
2014. Deborah Brautigam, “China in Africa: A New Model of International Development?” Sagamore Institute.
2013. Deborah Brautigam, Margaret McMillan and Xiaoyang Tang, “The Role of Foreign Investment in Ethiopia’s Leather Value Chain,” Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL) Research Note, Center for Economic Policy Research, London.
2013. Deborah Brautigam. “China in Africa,” SAIS Sphere 2013-2014: 36-39.
2013. Deborah Brautigam. “Review of David Shinn and Joshua Eisenmann, China and Africa: A Century of Engagement,” International Affairs, March 2013.
2012. Deborah Brautigam. “China in Africa: Investors, not ‘Infestors’,” China Economic Quarterly, 16, 3 (September).
2012. Deborah Brautigam, “Dispelling the Myths of China’s Presence in Africa,“ Financial Times, This is Africa, August 30.
2012. Deborah Brautigam, “In Africa, its Business as Usual for China,” New York Times, Room for Debate, September 20.
2012. Deborah Brautigam, “Is China Causing Africa’s Free Press Problem?” Rhodes Journalism Review
2012. Deborah Brautigam, “China’s Engagement in African Agriculture,” Global Food Policy Report 2012, Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
2011. Deborah Brautigam, “Ethiopia’s Partnership with China,” The Guardian, December 30.
2011. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang, “China-Africa Economic Cooperation Zones: Political and Economic Implications,” in Trade Negotiations Insights, 10, 8 (November).
2011. Deborah Brautigam, “The Dragon’s Gift,” Global Studies Review, 7, 3 (Fall).
2011. Axel Berger, Deborah Brautigam, & Philipp Baumgartner, "Why are we so critical about China’s engagement in Africa?" op-ed in Current Column, German Development Institute.
translated and published as "Die Kritik an Chinas Entwicklungshilfe ist übertrieben," in Die Zeit magazine (Germany), August 16, 2011.
2011. Deborah Brautigam. “China in Africa: Seven Myths,” Royal Elcano Institute/Real Instituto Elcano, Analysis of the Real Elcano Institute (ARI) 23/2011, Madrid, Spain, January 8.
2011. Deborah Brautigam. “Comments on ‘Winds from the East’,” Perspectives on Emerging Powers
Issue 5, Cape Town, South Africa, January 2011.
2011. Deborah Brautigam and Ryan Briggs. “China, the U.S., and Africa: What Do the Wikileaks Cables Really Tell Us?” African Arguments, Royal African Society, UK, and Social Science Research Council, New York, USA, January 11.
2010. Deborah Brautigam. “China overseas: ‘exporting hordes of experts’ or ‘teaching how to fish’?” Network For Policy Research Review And Advice On Education And Training (Norrag) NORRAG News, No. 44, Special Issue: A Brave New World Of ‘Emerging’, ‘Non-DAC’ Donors And Their Differences From ‘Traditional’ Donors, Geneva, Switzerland, September: 53-56.
2010. Deborah Brautigam. “China and Africa: Think Again,” The European Financial Review August 16.
2010. Deborah Brautigam, “Africa’s Eastern Promise: What the West can Learn from China’s Investment in Africa,” Foreign Affairs, January 5, 2010.
2009. Deborah Brautigam, “More Catalyst than Juggernaut,” Africa-Asia Confidential November 2009.
2009. Deborah Brautigam, “When China Goes Shopping Abroad: New Pressure for Corporate Integrity?” in Transparency International, Global Corruption Report 2009, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.67-70.
2009. Deborah Brautigam, “China: Steaming Forward in Africa,” The China Monitor, Issue 41: China and Africa, Weathering the Global Financial Crisis, June 2009, pp. 10-12.
2009. Deborah Brautigam, “China’s International Development Aid,” in David Pong, editor in chief. Encyclopedia of Modern China v. 2 Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp. 331-333.
2008. “Taxation and Governance in Africa: Take a Second Look,” American Enterprise Institute Development Policy Outlook, No. 1 (April).
2007. Deborah Brautigam, “Immigrant and Immigrant Groups: Chinese,” in John Middleton, ed. The New Encyclopedia of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons Reference Books.
2007. Deborah Brautigam. “The Chinese in Africa,” Guanxi: The Chinese Letter v. 2, n. 7: 1-5
2007. Deborah Brautigam and Adama Gaye, “Is Chinese Investment Good for Africa?” Council on Foreign Relations, February 14, .
- Reprinted in Frank Sampson Jannuzi, ed. Academic Module: U.S.-China Relations: An Affirmative Agenda, A Responsible Course, Council on Foreign Relations Academic Module, September 2007.
2002. Deborah Brautigam, "Interest Groups, Economic Policy, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa," in Malcolm McPherson, ed. Restarting and Sustaining Growth and Development in Africa (Washington, DC: Equity and Growth through Economic Research [EAGER], United States Agency for International Development and Harvard Institute for International Development), pp. 207-237.
1998. Deborah Brautigam. "Comment on 'What Can Developing Countries Learn From East Asian Economic Growth?' by Takatoshi Ito," Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1997 (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1998), pp. 167-172.
1997. Deborah Brautigam. "What Did Mauritius Learn From Taiwan?" in James McGuire, eds. Rethinking Development in East Asia and Latin America (Los Angeles: Pacific Council on International Policy, University of Southern California, 1997), pp. 133-138.
1995. Deborah Brautigam. "The Paradoxes of Democratization in Mauritius," Africa Demos, African Governance Program, The Carter Center, Atlanta, GA, vol. 3, no. 4 (March 1995).
1988. Deborah Brautigam. "The U.S. and African Debt," SIPA News, vol. 1, no. 2, (November 1988).
1983. Deborah Brautigam. "Doing Well by Doing Good: China's New Style Foreign Aid Projects," The China Business Review, v. 10, n. 5 (September/October 1983).
1981. Deborah Brautigam. "China, Oil, and the Multinationals: A New United Front?" Praxis, The Fletcher Journal of Development Studies, v. 2, n. 1 (October 1981).
2022. Deborah Brautigam, “The ABCs of China’s GDI,” East Asia Forum, December 22.
2022. Deborah Brautigam, “Time For a New Sovereign Debt Restructuring Regime: Can Chinese creditors navigate through a potential global debt crisis?” The International Economy, Summer 2022.
2022. Deborah Brautigam, “Mombasa Port: how Kenya’s auditor-general misread China’s Standard Gauge Railway contracts,” The Conversation, May 16, 2022.
2021. Lucas Engel, Reid Piercey and Deborah Brautigam, “Why France and Germany won’t join China’s ‘Africa Quad’, East Asia Forum, October 19, 2021.
2021. Deborah Brautigam and Meg Rithmire, “The Chinese Debt Trap is a Myth,” The Atlantic, February 2021.
2021. Kevin Acker, Deborah Brautigam and Yufan Huang, "The pandemic has worsened Africa’s debt crisis. China and other countries are stepping in", The Washington Post, February 2021.
2021. Deborah Brautigam, “How Zambia and China Co-Created a Debt "Tragedy of the Commons",” SAIS-CARI Policy Brief No. 61.
2020. Deborah Brautigam, “China, the World Bank, and African Debt: A War of Words”, The Diplomat, Aug 17, 2020.
2020. Deborah Brautigam and Yufan Huang, “Putting a Dollar Amount on China’s Loans to the Developing World,” The Diplomat, June 24, 2020.
2020. Deborah Brautigam, “Chinese Debt Relief: Fact and Fiction,” The Diplomat, April 15, 2020.
2020. Deborah Brautigam and Won Kidane, “China, Africa, and Debt Distress: Fact and Fiction about Asset Seizures,” SAIS-CARI Policy Brief No. 47.
2020. Kevin Acker, Deborah Brautigam, and Yufan Huang, “Debt Relief with Chinese Characteristics,” SAIS-CARI Policy Brief No. 46.
2019. Deborah Brautigam, “Is China the World’s Loan Shark?” New York Times, Opinion, April 26.
2019. Deborah Brautigam, “Misdiagnosing the Chinese Infrastructure Push,” American Interest, April 4.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, “Xi Jinping is visiting Africa this week. Here’s why China is such a popular development partner,” Washington Post, Monkey Cage, July 24.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, “U.S. politicians get China in Africa all wrong,” Washington Post, The WorldPost, April 12.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, Xinshen Diao, Margaret McMillan and Jed Silver, “Chinese Investment in Africa: How much do we know?” PEDL Policy Insight Series. December 2018.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, Tang Xiaoyang and Ying Xia, “What kinds of Chinese "Geese" are flying to Africa? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms,” SAIS-China Africa Research Initiative Policy Brief No. 24/2018.
2018. Janet Eom, Deborah Brautigam and Lina Benabdallah. “The Path Ahead: The 7th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.” SAIS China-Africa Research Initiative Briefing Paper 01/2018.
2017. Lucas Atkins, Deborah Brautigam, Yunnan Chen, and Jyhjong Hwang, “Challenges of and opportunities from the commodity price slump,” SAIS-China Africa Research Initiative Policy Brief 01/2017.
2016. Jyhjong Hwang, Deborah Brautigam, and Janet Eom, “How Chinese Money is Transforming Africa: It's Not What You Think,” SAIS-China Africa Research Initiative Policy Brief No. 11/2016.
2016. Janet Eom, Jyhjong Hwang, Ying Xia and Deborah Brautigam. “Looking Back And Moving Forward: An Analysis Of China-Africa Economic Trends And The Outcomes Of The 2015 Forum On China Africa Cooperation,” SAIS-China Africa Research Initiative Policy Brief 09/2016.
2016. Deborah Brautigam, Jyhjong Hwang, and Lu Wang. “Chinese Financed Hydropower Projects In Sub-Saharan Africa,” SAIS-China Africa Research Initiative Policy Brief 08/2016.
2015. Deborah Brautigam. “Don’t get excited, China is not the new aid superpower,” The Guardian, November 3.
2015. Deborah Brautigam. “Chinese Aid Policy,” in Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shang-jin Wei, and Xiaobo Zhang, eds. Oxford Companion to the Economics of China.
2015. Deborah Brautigam. “Five Myths About Chinese Investment in Africa,” Foreign Policy, December 4.
2014. Deborah Brautigam, “China in Africa: A New Model of International Development?” Sagamore Institute.
2013. Deborah Brautigam, Margaret McMillan and Xiaoyang Tang, “The Role of Foreign Investment in Ethiopia’s Leather Value Chain,” Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL) Research Note, Center for Economic Policy Research, London.
2013. Deborah Brautigam. “China in Africa,” SAIS Sphere 2013-2014: 36-39.
2013. Deborah Brautigam. “Review of David Shinn and Joshua Eisenmann, China and Africa: A Century of Engagement,” International Affairs, March 2013.
2012. Deborah Brautigam. “China in Africa: Investors, not ‘Infestors’,” China Economic Quarterly, 16, 3 (September).
2012. Deborah Brautigam, “Dispelling the Myths of China’s Presence in Africa,“ Financial Times, This is Africa, August 30.
2012. Deborah Brautigam, “In Africa, its Business as Usual for China,” New York Times, Room for Debate, September 20.
2012. Deborah Brautigam, “Is China Causing Africa’s Free Press Problem?” Rhodes Journalism Review
2012. Deborah Brautigam, “China’s Engagement in African Agriculture,” Global Food Policy Report 2012, Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
2011. Deborah Brautigam, “Ethiopia’s Partnership with China,” The Guardian, December 30.
2011. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang, “China-Africa Economic Cooperation Zones: Political and Economic Implications,” in Trade Negotiations Insights, 10, 8 (November).
2011. Deborah Brautigam, “The Dragon’s Gift,” Global Studies Review, 7, 3 (Fall).
2011. Axel Berger, Deborah Brautigam, & Philipp Baumgartner, "Why are we so critical about China’s engagement in Africa?" op-ed in Current Column, German Development Institute.
translated and published as "Die Kritik an Chinas Entwicklungshilfe ist übertrieben," in Die Zeit magazine (Germany), August 16, 2011.
2011. Deborah Brautigam. “China in Africa: Seven Myths,” Royal Elcano Institute/Real Instituto Elcano, Analysis of the Real Elcano Institute (ARI) 23/2011, Madrid, Spain, January 8.
2011. Deborah Brautigam. “Comments on ‘Winds from the East’,” Perspectives on Emerging Powers
Issue 5, Cape Town, South Africa, January 2011.
2011. Deborah Brautigam and Ryan Briggs. “China, the U.S., and Africa: What Do the Wikileaks Cables Really Tell Us?” African Arguments, Royal African Society, UK, and Social Science Research Council, New York, USA, January 11.
2010. Deborah Brautigam. “China overseas: ‘exporting hordes of experts’ or ‘teaching how to fish’?” Network For Policy Research Review And Advice On Education And Training (Norrag) NORRAG News, No. 44, Special Issue: A Brave New World Of ‘Emerging’, ‘Non-DAC’ Donors And Their Differences From ‘Traditional’ Donors, Geneva, Switzerland, September: 53-56.
2010. Deborah Brautigam. “China and Africa: Think Again,” The European Financial Review August 16.
2010. Deborah Brautigam, “Africa’s Eastern Promise: What the West can Learn from China’s Investment in Africa,” Foreign Affairs, January 5, 2010.
2009. Deborah Brautigam, “More Catalyst than Juggernaut,” Africa-Asia Confidential November 2009.
2009. Deborah Brautigam, “When China Goes Shopping Abroad: New Pressure for Corporate Integrity?” in Transparency International, Global Corruption Report 2009, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.67-70.
2009. Deborah Brautigam, “China: Steaming Forward in Africa,” The China Monitor, Issue 41: China and Africa, Weathering the Global Financial Crisis, June 2009, pp. 10-12.
2009. Deborah Brautigam, “China’s International Development Aid,” in David Pong, editor in chief. Encyclopedia of Modern China v. 2 Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp. 331-333.
2008. “Taxation and Governance in Africa: Take a Second Look,” American Enterprise Institute Development Policy Outlook, No. 1 (April).
2007. Deborah Brautigam, “Immigrant and Immigrant Groups: Chinese,” in John Middleton, ed. The New Encyclopedia of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons Reference Books.
2007. Deborah Brautigam. “The Chinese in Africa,” Guanxi: The Chinese Letter v. 2, n. 7: 1-5
2007. Deborah Brautigam and Adama Gaye, “Is Chinese Investment Good for Africa?” Council on Foreign Relations, February 14, .
- Reprinted in Frank Sampson Jannuzi, ed. Academic Module: U.S.-China Relations: An Affirmative Agenda, A Responsible Course, Council on Foreign Relations Academic Module, September 2007.
2002. Deborah Brautigam, "Interest Groups, Economic Policy, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa," in Malcolm McPherson, ed. Restarting and Sustaining Growth and Development in Africa (Washington, DC: Equity and Growth through Economic Research [EAGER], United States Agency for International Development and Harvard Institute for International Development), pp. 207-237.
1998. Deborah Brautigam. "Comment on 'What Can Developing Countries Learn From East Asian Economic Growth?' by Takatoshi Ito," Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1997 (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1998), pp. 167-172.
1997. Deborah Brautigam. "What Did Mauritius Learn From Taiwan?" in James McGuire, eds. Rethinking Development in East Asia and Latin America (Los Angeles: Pacific Council on International Policy, University of Southern California, 1997), pp. 133-138.
1995. Deborah Brautigam. "The Paradoxes of Democratization in Mauritius," Africa Demos, African Governance Program, The Carter Center, Atlanta, GA, vol. 3, no. 4 (March 1995).
1988. Deborah Brautigam. "The U.S. and African Debt," SIPA News, vol. 1, no. 2, (November 1988).
1983. Deborah Brautigam. "Doing Well by Doing Good: China's New Style Foreign Aid Projects," The China Business Review, v. 10, n. 5 (September/October 1983).
1981. Deborah Brautigam. "China, Oil, and the Multinationals: A New United Front?" Praxis, The Fletcher Journal of Development Studies, v. 2, n. 1 (October 1981).