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Article: ‘Ground-Truthing’ Chinese Development Finance in Africa: Field Evidence from South Africa and Uganda
Title | ‘Ground-Truthing’ Chinese Development Finance in Africa: Field Evidence from South Africa and Uganda |
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Issue Date | 2016 |
Citation | Journal of Development Studies, 2016, v. 52, n. 6, p. 780-796 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. A new methodology, Tracking Underreported Financial Flows (TUFF), leverages open-source information on development finance by non-transparent, non-Western donors. If such open-source methods prove to be valid and reliable, they can enhance our understanding of the causes and consequences of development finance from non-transparent donors including, but not limited to, China. But open-source methods face charges of inaccuracy. In this study we create and field-test a replicable ‘ground-truthing’ methodology to verify, update, and improve open-source data with in-person interviews and site visits in Uganda and South Africa. Ground-truthing generally reveals close agreement between open-source data and answers to protocol questions from informants with official roles in the Chinese-funded projects. Our findings suggest that open-source data collection, while limited in knowable ways, can provide a stronger empirical foundation for research on development finance. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/287052 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.8 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.029 |
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dc.contributor.author | Muchapondwa, Edwin | - |
dc.contributor.author | Nielson, Daniel | - |
dc.contributor.author | Parks, Bradley | - |
dc.contributor.author | Strange, Austin M. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tierney, Michael J. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-07T11:46:22Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-07T11:46:22Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Development Studies, 2016, v. 52, n. 6, p. 780-796 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-0388 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/287052 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. A new methodology, Tracking Underreported Financial Flows (TUFF), leverages open-source information on development finance by non-transparent, non-Western donors. If such open-source methods prove to be valid and reliable, they can enhance our understanding of the causes and consequences of development finance from non-transparent donors including, but not limited to, China. But open-source methods face charges of inaccuracy. In this study we create and field-test a replicable ‘ground-truthing’ methodology to verify, update, and improve open-source data with in-person interviews and site visits in Uganda and South Africa. Ground-truthing generally reveals close agreement between open-source data and answers to protocol questions from informants with official roles in the Chinese-funded projects. Our findings suggest that open-source data collection, while limited in knowable ways, can provide a stronger empirical foundation for research on development finance. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Development Studies | - |
dc.title | ‘Ground-Truthing’ Chinese Development Finance in Africa: Field Evidence from South Africa and Uganda | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/00220388.2015.1087510 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84964330696 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 52 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 6 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 780 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 796 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1743-9140 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000375947900002 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0022-0388 | - |