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  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,235 Views
18 Pages

23 November 2018

The “Belt and Road (B&R) Initiative” is an innovative idea proposed by China aimed at promoting common prosperity in the world. Although it has gained more and more recognition and response, there is also some one-sided understanding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,847 Views
19 Pages

17 May 2022

When formulating international economic cooperation agreements, policymakers should consider not only their economic promotion effects but also their impact on green development. This paper is an examination of whether the Belt and Road Initiative co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
186 Citations
42,699 Views
22 Pages

Environmental Impacts of Infrastructure Development under the Belt and Road Initiative

  • Hoong Chen Teo,
  • Alex Mark Lechner,
  • Grant W. Walton,
  • Faith Ka Shun Chan,
  • Ali Cheshmehzangi,
  • May Tan-Mullins,
  • Hing Kai Chan,
  • Troy Sternberg and
  • Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the largest infrastructure scheme in our lifetime, bringing unprecedented geopolitical and economic shifts far larger than previous rising powers. Concerns about its environmental impacts are legitimate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
11,597 Views
14 Pages

The main purpose of this study was to find out the perceived impacts on the garment and textile industry of Vietnam from the Belt and Road Initiative (the BRI), a global-scale developmental and trade facilitation policy of China. The research applied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,026 Views
16 Pages

25 June 2024

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) adheres to the principles of inclusive development, shared business interests, and collaborative construction. This paper empirically investigates the impact of the BRI on domestic income inequality in participating...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,363 Views
17 Pages

21 February 2022

Carbon emission efficiency, which is mainly affected by economic output, energy efficiency and energy structure, is the effect of carbon emissions generated in economic activities. Improving carbon emission efficiency and narrowing regional differenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,098 Views
17 Pages

14 June 2023

The Belt and Road Initiative, as an important measure for China in terms of opening up and participating in international economic and trade cooperation, has become a new driving force for the sustainable development of China’s forest products...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,930 Views
13 Pages

11 September 2018

This research implements the panel data control method to evaluate the stimulative effects of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative on trade performance in China. We constructed a counterfactual of China’s trade surplus by exploiting...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,239 Views
20 Pages

With the widespread recognition and in-depth implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), especially in the context of global climate change, the ecological environment of Belt and Road Initiative regions might be confronted with pressures a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,626 Views
21 Pages

7 September 2021

The Belt and Road investment involves a large number of renewable energy projects, but whether the energy efficiency is linked to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation has yet to be established in the literature. This research attempts to cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,646 Views
34 Pages

14 April 2023

The Belt and Road Initiative was proposed by China in 2013 as a response to sluggish global economic growth. With most countries along the Belt and Road being developing countries, it is crucial to strengthen trade cooperation in agricultural product...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,805 Views
15 Pages

As China’s opening-up grows wider under the Belt and Road Initiative, the exploration and construction of free trade ports have received increasing attention. In 2018, China’s first free trade port was settled in Hainan instead of Shangha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,525 Views
17 Pages

25 September 2020

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) needs little introduction; the infrastructure investment will reconfigure development in Central Asia. As its origin story and initial encounter, Central Asia offers a prismatic lens to delve into the vita...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,601 Views
21 Pages

Electric Power Investment Risk Assessment for Belt and Road Initiative Nations

  • Jiahai Yuan,
  • Yurong Zeng,
  • Xiaoxuan Guo,
  • Yu Ai and
  • Minpeng Xiong

31 August 2018

In recent years, Chinese companies’ investment in overseas electric power has grown rapidly. Chinese enterprises with matured technology and abundant talent in the field of electric power and electric power investment are becoming the focus of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,171 Views
13 Pages

Economic Complexity Based Recommendation Enhance the Efficiency of the Belt and Road Initiative

  • Hao Liao,
  • Xiao-Min Huang,
  • Alexandre Vidmer,
  • Yi-Cheng Zhang and
  • Ming-Yang Zhou

19 September 2018

The Belt and Road initiative (BRI) was announced in 2013 by the Chinese government. Its goal is to promote the cooperation between European and Asian countries, as well as enhancing the trust between members and unifying the market. Since its creatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,312 Views
14 Pages

24 September 2019

With the slowdown of global economic growth, how to stimulate economic growth has become a hot topic in recent years. The “Belt and Road (B&R) Initiative,” as a newly proposed global economic stimulus plan, has attracted widespread at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,889 Views
15 Pages

8 July 2020

Given that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has penetrated most, if not all, fields in China and the countries along the road, this paper attempts to join the existing literature by providing a unique perspective (language planning) to understand t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,354 Views
27 Pages

19 October 2025

Launched in 2013, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was originally devised to link East Asia and Europe through a network of physical and digital infrastructure. This article analyses the BRI’s development in the European context by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,104 Views
23 Pages

2 November 2020

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious infrastructure and development project promoting sustainable economic growth through facilitating prosperous trade across Eurasia and Africa; however, its potential remains underexploited. Logistics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,402 Views
17 Pages

12 April 2019

Using trade and labor-force data of the western provinces from 1994, this study empirically proved the existence of a long-running equilibrium between foreign trade and labor size in western China. By constructing a vector autoregressive model, the r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,792 Views
14 Pages

28 October 2022

This study investigates the digitalization capabilities and the moderating effect of green open innovation (GOI) that firms need to achieve triple bottom line (TBL) performance in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This study explores the structure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,162 Views
13 Pages

19 June 2020

Energy cooperation is an important part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). As China’s investment in One Belt One Road countries has increased substantially, a natural question is whether the investment in the BRI countries can contribute to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
7,758 Views
28 Pages

30 September 2018

This research is employed to examine the environmental issues embedded in Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), to be more specific: testify which of these hypotheses: Pollution Havens Hypothesis, Pollution Halo Hypothesis, Environmental Kuznets Curve is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,723 Views
16 Pages

11 December 2018

China has shifted its focus from export-led growth to technology-driven growth. The “One Belt, One Road” initiative (OBOR) is aimed at promoting economic integration with the rest of the world that might boost China’s ability to upg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,438 Views
13 Pages

China’s One Belt and One Road Initiative and Outward Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Europe

  • Degong Ma,
  • Chun Lei,
  • Farid Ullah,
  • Raza Ullah and
  • Qadar Bakhsh Baloch

10 December 2019

For the last few years, the execution of the Belt and Road Initiative (hereinafter referred to as the BRI) and China’s outward foreign direct investment (hereinafter referred to as OFDI) in Europe have seen a significant upward trend. For our c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,973 Views
18 Pages

The United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) involve society, economy, and environment, and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an important path to implement the SDGs. Moreover, the BRI is a vision for economic development of count...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,426 Views
26 Pages

Belt and Road Initiative and Sustainable Development: Evidence from Bangladesh

  • Syeda Nasrin Akter,
  • Shuoben Bi,
  • Mohammad Shoyeb,
  • Muhammad Salah Uddin and
  • Md. Mozammel Haque

8 July 2025

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) prioritizes infrastructure investment to enhance regional connectivity and foster sustainable economic development. Therefore, this empirical study aims to examine the impact of the BRI, specifically through Chinese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,043 Views
16 Pages

Health Vulnerability Index for Disaster Risk Reduction: Application in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Region

  • Emily Yang Ying Chan,
  • Zhe Huang,
  • Holly Ching Yu Lam,
  • Carol Ka Po Wong and
  • Qiang Zou

Despite the importance of health vulnerability in disaster risk assessment, most of the existing disaster vulnerability indicators only emphasize economic and social vulnerability. Important underlying health risks such as non-communicable disease ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,494 Views
14 Pages

Implications of Belt and Road Initiative for Supply Chain Management: A Holistic View

  • Atif Saleem Butt,
  • Tahseen Anwer Arshi,
  • Venkoba Rao and
  • Veena Tewari

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), one of the largest logistics and transportation infrastructures to date, has focused on much work in the economics and political sciences. However, little research has been done on how BRI can affect supply chain manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,024 Views
19 Pages

Food Trade Network and Food Security: From the Perspective of Belt and Road Initiative

  • Mohammed Ismail Alhussam,
  • Jifan Ren,
  • Hongxing Yao and
  • Omar Abu Risha

In recent times, there has been a growing interest in the role of food trade in achieving food security. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between food trade and food security within the context of the Belt and Road Ini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,045 Views
16 Pages

28 May 2023

Since the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Chinese firms have actively responded to the government’s call to accelerate outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). Based on resource dependence theory and institutional theory,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,396 Views
17 Pages

Evolution of China’s Coastal Economy since the Belt and Road Initiative Based on Nighttime Light Imagery

  • Xiaohan Wang,
  • Minqiang Zhou,
  • Yining Xia,
  • Junshen Zhang,
  • Jianting Sun and
  • Bin Zhang

1 February 2024

The joint construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road proposed by China has brought major development opportunities for the development of countries and regions along the routes. Traditional GDP statistics base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,456 Views
22 Pages

20 March 2025

The Chinese government encourages enterprises participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to improve their ESG performance to better align the BRI with sustainable development. This paper reveals the heterogeneous treatment effect of the BRI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,075 Views
24 Pages

17 October 2022

The impact of international trade and export-oriented policies on economic growth has been an important topic. Based on an evaluation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this study provides new evidence of the positive causal link betwee...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
19,645 Views
21 Pages

14 August 2023

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a household name for developing countries, especially in Africa. The BRI proposal by Chinese President Xi Jinping was positively received by many countries, including policymakers in China. In response, t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,340 Views
29 Pages

The advent of the Metaverse, a convergence of virtual and physical realities, presents unprecedented opportunities for promoting cultural tourism along the historic Silk Roads within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) framework. However, this emergin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,076 Views
18 Pages

5 January 2021

In recent years, the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) promoted by the Chinese government has attracted a significant amount of international trade and transnational investment and other businesses. Accordingly, country risk assessment sho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,662 Views
21 Pages

9 March 2021

In 2013, China proposed the “Belt & Road Initiative” which aims to invest the “Belt & Road” countries so as to help them develop their infrastructure and economy. China consumes the largest part of fossil energy of the whole world, so it is C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,968 Views
20 Pages

10 August 2022

As the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) continues to advance, the proportion of China’s investment in mineral resources has increased yearly. However, the current research on mineral resources investment risk mainly focuses on specific resources...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,827 Views
27 Pages

Under the Belt and Road Initiative, China and Kazakhstan have developed a strategic partnership in the automotive industry that has progressed through three distinct phases. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution and future of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,187 Views
14 Pages

18 September 2021

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), announced in 2013, is an unprecedented mega-project that aims to improve connectivity between China and over 70 countries through infrastructure investment and regional cooperation. It has unparalleled potentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,658 Views
32 Pages

29 November 2024

The Belt and Road Initiative holds significant importance for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goals 9 and 17. Drawing on data from the Web of Science database, the BRI database, and the World Bank datab...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
55 Citations
27,098 Views
20 Pages

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Global Model for an Evolving Approach to Sustainable Regional Development

  • Muhammad Khalil Khan,
  • Imran Ali Sandano,
  • Cornelius B. Pratt and
  • Tahir Farid

16 November 2018

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a cornucopia of international projects that offer mammoth opportunities for more economic cooperation and deeper regional integration primarily among emerging economies. BRI is providing new drivers of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,444 Views
19 Pages

29 December 2022

This paper uses the difference in difference (DID) model to explore the impact of the “Belt and Road” Initiative (BRI) on the level of corporate debt and its mechanism based on quasi-natural experiment of the promulgation and implementati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,397 Views
21 Pages

12 October 2024

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a significant Chinese strategic measure designed to construct a platform for multinational cooperation. The study investigates whether the BRI construction influences corporate environmental information disclosur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,462 Views
19 Pages

8 October 2020

With the implementation of China’s “Going Out” strategy and “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) as well as the shortage of domestic hydropower market, the scale of hydropower investment along BRI by Chinese companies has ex...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,537 Views
40 Pages

25 August 2020

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has attracted increasing attention worldwide since its inception in 2013. Although the research is fast increasing in terms of publications, there is a lack of knowledge about the intellectual structure, r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,018 Views
21 Pages

14 August 2020

Land-use changes can significantly affect both the ecosystem services value (ESV) and ecosystem functions. Estimating the impacts of land-use changes in ESV in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is indispensable to provide public awareness about the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,411 Views
26 Pages

26 April 2023

Based on 1692 outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) events of 735 A-share listed companies in China’s manufacturing industry from 2010 to 2019, this paper empirically examines the effect of investment motivation and the impact of institution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
114 Citations
8,500 Views
21 Pages

Energy and Ecological Sustainability: Challenges and Panoramas in Belt and Road Initiative Countries

  • Abdul Rauf,
  • Xiaoxing Liu,
  • Waqas Amin,
  • Ilhan Ozturk,
  • Obaid Ur Rehman and
  • Suleman Sarwar

3 August 2018

Innovation and globalization fosters a tendency towards multiparty collaboration and strategic contacts among nations. A similar path was followed by the Chinese administration in 2013, with its “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI). The most...

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