Stories: Emerging Actors in Development Finance with Potential Social and Environmental Risks: China & Brazil

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A Closer Look at China’s Overseas Investment

When it comes to overseas development finance, China is definitely a country to watch.

The landscape of development finance is changing rapidly. Traditionally, international financial flows moved from developed countries to developing countries. In the last decade, however, major emerging economies such as China and Brazil have fueled a growing trend of South-South development flows by increasingly channeling their overseas investments to other developing countries.