China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Abstract

The Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private nonpartisan, nonprofi t institution for rigorous, intellectually open, and indepth study and discussion of international economic policy. Its purpose is to identify and analyze important issues to make globalization benefi cial and sustainable for the people of the United States and the world, and then to develop and communicate practical new approaches for dealing with them. Its work is funded by a highly diverse group of philanthropic foundations, private corporations, and interested individuals, as well as by income on its capital fund. About 35 percent of the Institute's resources in its latest fi scal year were provided by contributors from outside the United States. A list of all fi nancial supporters for the preceding four years is posted at