Working Papers and Discussion Papers
2023. Deborah Brautigam and Yufan Huang, "Integrating China into Multilateral Debt Relief: Progress and Problems in the G20 DSSI," SAIS-CARI Briefing Paper No. 9/2023.
2022. Deborah Brautigam, Vijay Bhalaki, Laure Deron, and Yinxuan Wang, “How Africa Borrows from China, and Why Mombasa Port is not Collateral for the Standard Gauge Railway,” SAIS-CARI Working Paper No. 52/2022.
2021. Deborah Brautigam. “How Zambia and China Co-Created a Debt 'Tragedy of the Commons'.” SAIS-CARI Working Paper No. 51/2021.
2021. Deborah Brautigam and Yufan Huang. “What is the Real Story of China's ‘Hidden Debt’”? SAIS-CARI Policy Briefing Paper No. 06/2021.
2021. Deborah Brautigam and Yinxuan Wang. “Zambia’s Chinese Debt in the Pandemic Era,” SAIS-CARI Policy Briefing Paper No. 05/2021.
2021. Kevin Acker and Deborah Brautigam. “Twenty Years of Data on China's Africa Lending,” SAIS-CARI Policy Briefing Paper No. 04/2021.
2020. Deborah Brautigam, Kevin Acker and Yufan Huang. “Debt Relief with Chinese Characteristics,” SAIS-CARI Working Paper No. 39/2020.
2020. Deborah Brautigam, Yufan Huang, and Kevin Acker. “Risky Business: New Data on Chinese Loans and Africa’s Debt Problem” SAIS-CARI Policy Briefing Paper No. 03/2020.
2018. Janet Eom, Deborah Brautigam, and Lina Benabdallah “The Path Ahead: The 7th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation,” SAIS China-Africa Research Initiative Policy Briefing No. 01/2018.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, Xiaoyang Tang, and Ying Xia. “What kinds of Chinese "Geese" are flying to Africa? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms,” SAIS-CARI Working Paper No. 17/2018.
2017. Lucas Atkins, Deborah Brautigam, Yunnan Chen, and Jyhjong Hwang. “Challenges of and opportunities from the commodity price slump,” SAIS China-Africa Research Initiative Economic Bulletin No. 01/2017.
2016. Deborah Brautigam and Jyhjong Hwang. “Eastern Promises: New Data on Chinese Loans in Africa, 2000-2014.” SAIS China-Africa Research Initiative Working Paper No. 04/2016.
2016. Yunnan Chen, Irene Yuan Sun, Rex Uzonna Ukaejiofo, Tang Xiaoyang, and Deborah Brautigam. “Learning from China? Manufacturing Investment and Technology Transfer in Nigeria,” SAIS China Africa Research Initiative Working Paper No. 02/2016.
2015. Deborah Brautigam, Jyhjong Hwang and Nancy Wang. Chinese Engagement in Hydropower Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa. SAIS China Africa Research Initiative Working Paper No. 01/2015.
2012. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang. “An Overview of Chinese Agricultural and Rural Engagement in Ethiopia,” Development Strategy and Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Discussion Paper No. 01185, Washington, DC, May.
2012. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang. “An Overview of Chinese Agricultural and Rural Engagement in Tanzania,” Development Strategy and Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Discussion Paper No. 01213, Washington, DC, October.
2011. Deborah Brautigam. “China in Africa: What Can Western Donors Learn?” Oslo: Norfund.
2010. Deborah Brautigam. “China, Africa, and the International Aid Architecture,” African Development Bank Working Paper No. 107, April 2010.
2009. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang. “China’s Investment in African Special Economic Zones: Overview and Initial Lessons,” World Bank, December 2009.
2009. Deborah Brautigam with Tania Diolle. “Coalitions, Capitalists, and Credibility: Overcoming the Crisis of Confidence at Independence in Mauritius,” paper prepared for the Leaders, Elites and Coalitions Research Programme, World Bank and AusAid.
2005. Deborah Brautigam. “The People’s Budget? Politics, Power, Popular Participation and Pro-Poor Economic Policy,” in Larry Willmore, ed. Civil Society and Participatory Budgeting New York: United Nations Department for Economic and Social Analysis (UNDESA).
2001. Deborah Brautigam and Michael Woolcock, "Small States in a Global Economy: The Role of Institutions in Managing Vulnerability and Opportunity in Small Developing Countries," United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research Discussion Paper No. 2001/37 (July 2001).
2000. Deborah Brautigam. "Interest Groups, Economic Policy, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa," African Economic Policy Discussion Paper No. 40, Equity and Growth through Economic Research (EAGER), United States Agency for International Development, Bureau for Africa, Office of Sustainable Development, and Harvard Institute for International Development (July).
1999. Deborah Brautigam and Kwesi Botchwey. "The Institutional Impact of Aid Dependence on Recipients in Africa," Bergen, Norway: Christian Michelsen Institute Working Paper 1999:1, 39 pp.
1999. Deborah Brautigam. "Local Entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa: Networks and Linkages to the Global Economy," Bergen, Norway: Christian Michelsen Institute WP 99/2, 23.
1995. Deborah Brautigam. “Indigenous Institutions and Industrial Development in Eastern Nigeria,” IRIS Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 154, IRIS Center, University of Maryland.
1984. Deborah Brautigam. “The People's Republic of China Irrigated Rice Project in The Gambia,” Gambia River Basin Studies Working Document No. 42, Center for Research on Economic Development (CRED), Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, August.
2022. Deborah Brautigam, Vijay Bhalaki, Laure Deron, and Yinxuan Wang, “How Africa Borrows from China, and Why Mombasa Port is not Collateral for the Standard Gauge Railway,” SAIS-CARI Working Paper No. 52/2022.
2021. Deborah Brautigam. “How Zambia and China Co-Created a Debt 'Tragedy of the Commons'.” SAIS-CARI Working Paper No. 51/2021.
2021. Deborah Brautigam and Yufan Huang. “What is the Real Story of China's ‘Hidden Debt’”? SAIS-CARI Policy Briefing Paper No. 06/2021.
2021. Deborah Brautigam and Yinxuan Wang. “Zambia’s Chinese Debt in the Pandemic Era,” SAIS-CARI Policy Briefing Paper No. 05/2021.
2021. Kevin Acker and Deborah Brautigam. “Twenty Years of Data on China's Africa Lending,” SAIS-CARI Policy Briefing Paper No. 04/2021.
2020. Deborah Brautigam, Kevin Acker and Yufan Huang. “Debt Relief with Chinese Characteristics,” SAIS-CARI Working Paper No. 39/2020.
2020. Deborah Brautigam, Yufan Huang, and Kevin Acker. “Risky Business: New Data on Chinese Loans and Africa’s Debt Problem” SAIS-CARI Policy Briefing Paper No. 03/2020.
2018. Janet Eom, Deborah Brautigam, and Lina Benabdallah “The Path Ahead: The 7th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation,” SAIS China-Africa Research Initiative Policy Briefing No. 01/2018.
2018. Deborah Brautigam, Xiaoyang Tang, and Ying Xia. “What kinds of Chinese "Geese" are flying to Africa? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms,” SAIS-CARI Working Paper No. 17/2018.
2017. Lucas Atkins, Deborah Brautigam, Yunnan Chen, and Jyhjong Hwang. “Challenges of and opportunities from the commodity price slump,” SAIS China-Africa Research Initiative Economic Bulletin No. 01/2017.
2016. Deborah Brautigam and Jyhjong Hwang. “Eastern Promises: New Data on Chinese Loans in Africa, 2000-2014.” SAIS China-Africa Research Initiative Working Paper No. 04/2016.
2016. Yunnan Chen, Irene Yuan Sun, Rex Uzonna Ukaejiofo, Tang Xiaoyang, and Deborah Brautigam. “Learning from China? Manufacturing Investment and Technology Transfer in Nigeria,” SAIS China Africa Research Initiative Working Paper No. 02/2016.
2015. Deborah Brautigam, Jyhjong Hwang and Nancy Wang. Chinese Engagement in Hydropower Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa. SAIS China Africa Research Initiative Working Paper No. 01/2015.
2012. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang. “An Overview of Chinese Agricultural and Rural Engagement in Ethiopia,” Development Strategy and Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Discussion Paper No. 01185, Washington, DC, May.
2012. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang. “An Overview of Chinese Agricultural and Rural Engagement in Tanzania,” Development Strategy and Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Discussion Paper No. 01213, Washington, DC, October.
2011. Deborah Brautigam. “China in Africa: What Can Western Donors Learn?” Oslo: Norfund.
2010. Deborah Brautigam. “China, Africa, and the International Aid Architecture,” African Development Bank Working Paper No. 107, April 2010.
2009. Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang. “China’s Investment in African Special Economic Zones: Overview and Initial Lessons,” World Bank, December 2009.
2009. Deborah Brautigam with Tania Diolle. “Coalitions, Capitalists, and Credibility: Overcoming the Crisis of Confidence at Independence in Mauritius,” paper prepared for the Leaders, Elites and Coalitions Research Programme, World Bank and AusAid.
2005. Deborah Brautigam. “The People’s Budget? Politics, Power, Popular Participation and Pro-Poor Economic Policy,” in Larry Willmore, ed. Civil Society and Participatory Budgeting New York: United Nations Department for Economic and Social Analysis (UNDESA).
2001. Deborah Brautigam and Michael Woolcock, "Small States in a Global Economy: The Role of Institutions in Managing Vulnerability and Opportunity in Small Developing Countries," United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research Discussion Paper No. 2001/37 (July 2001).
2000. Deborah Brautigam. "Interest Groups, Economic Policy, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa," African Economic Policy Discussion Paper No. 40, Equity and Growth through Economic Research (EAGER), United States Agency for International Development, Bureau for Africa, Office of Sustainable Development, and Harvard Institute for International Development (July).
1999. Deborah Brautigam and Kwesi Botchwey. "The Institutional Impact of Aid Dependence on Recipients in Africa," Bergen, Norway: Christian Michelsen Institute Working Paper 1999:1, 39 pp.
1999. Deborah Brautigam. "Local Entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa: Networks and Linkages to the Global Economy," Bergen, Norway: Christian Michelsen Institute WP 99/2, 23.
1995. Deborah Brautigam. “Indigenous Institutions and Industrial Development in Eastern Nigeria,” IRIS Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 154, IRIS Center, University of Maryland.
1984. Deborah Brautigam. “The People's Republic of China Irrigated Rice Project in The Gambia,” Gambia River Basin Studies Working Document No. 42, Center for Research on Economic Development (CRED), Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, August.