Frontiers | The Impact of the "Belt and Road Initiative" on International Scholarship Students
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has had a significant impact on China in political, economic and cultural terms. This study focuses on the cultural domain, especially on scholarship students from the countries that signed bilateral cooperation agreements with China under the BRI. Using an integrated approach combining the difference-in-differences method and the gravity model, we explore the correlation between the BRI and the increasing number of international scholarship students funded by the Chinese government, as well as the determinants of students’ decision to study in China. The p...
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