China is changing the way money is lent to countries in need

Beijing is now the world's largest official source of development finance

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The flags for the China Development Bank are flown near the Chinese national flag: China has a variety of lending instruments at its disposal. © AP

Paola Subacchi is professor of international economics at the University of London's Queen Mary Global Policy Institute and the author, most recently, of "The Cost of Free Money."

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