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Will the Belt and Road promote or hinder development in Asia?
Over recent years China’s economic advantage over most Asian developing countries has widened, and the jury is still out on how the Belt and Road project changes matters
Jayati Ghosh
14 May 2019
Much has been written about the consequences of China’s Belt and Road initiative, especially for the developing countries of Asia. Yet another, equally consequential phenomenon has gone largely unnoticed: China’s upending of trade relationships with those countries.
