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Commentary

Dec 13, 2024

Corruption and Russia's Illicit Gold Trade

Russia's use of gold has surged since the Ukraine invasion, fueling corruption and human rights abuses while supporting its wartime economy. Disrupting these illicit networks is essential to countering Moscow's influence.
Commentary

Nov 26, 2024

Russia Is Leveraging Gold and Working with China to Bypass Western Sanctions

Russia's evolving trade tactics, including the use of gold and informal networks, highlight the Kremlin's resourcefulness in circumventing Western sanctions. And China is playing a key role in its economic workarounds.
Project

Oct 21, 2024

Newton Fund Impact Evaluation

RAND Europe is working in partnership with Itad, IDR and Athena Infonomics to conduct an ex-post evaluation of the Newton Fund.
Research

Oct 3, 2024

Interim Impact Evaluation of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

This report explores interim findings on an evaluation assessing the effectiveness and impact of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF).
Press

Sep 9, 2024

Gold Becomes Strategically Important to Russia

In response to Western economic pressure, Russia has turned to gold to support the economy, evade sanctions, and bolster its international trade.
Project

Sep 9, 2024

How Russia is using gold in wartime

RAND Europe researchers examined how Russia has been using gold since its invasion of Ukraine, how its gold sector and gold producers currently operate, and how Russia will generate gold revenues and develop its international gold trade.
Research

Sep 9, 2024

Gold Rush: How Russia is using gold in wartime

This report examines how Russia has been using gold since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and how it is seeking to generate revenues from gold and develop its international gold trade.
Research

Dec 11, 2023

China's AI Exports: Technology Distribution and Data Safety

The authors analyze a new project finance dataset on China's development-funded artificial intelligence (AI) export projects — adding interview-based country case studies — to better understand China's AI exports and their impact on developing countries.
Research

Dec 11, 2023

China's AI Exports: Developing a Tool to Track Chinese Development Finance in the Global South — Technical Documentation

This report is the technical documentation for a tool that tracks Chinese government–supported development finance projects that used or enabled artificial intelligence technology in the Global South between 2000 and 2017.
Tool

Dec 11, 2023

China's AI Exports Database (CAIED)

The China AI Exports Database (CAIED) tracks Chinese government-supported development finance projects that utilized or enabled Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in the Global South between 2000 and 2017.
Research

Oct 23, 2023

Development as a Tool of Economic Statecraft: A Net Assessment of U.S. and Chinese Approaches

The authors conduct a net assessment of U.S. and Chinese approaches to development assistance and cooperation, using a data-driven comparison to reveal opportunities for the United States to better compete with China in the developing world.
Commentary

Aug 13, 2020

What to Watch to Understand the Sino-Iranian Relationship

Beijing and Tehran are in the process of finalizing an ambitious partnership covering a range of security and economic issues. The United States should not overreact to shifting geopolitical dynamics in the Middle East, and should instead keep an eye out to assess the evolution of the relationship and take stock of what is delivered instead of what is merely promised.

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