AidData — A Research Lab at William & Mary

The First Tranche Blog

AidData-led project awarded nearly $4.75 million for agriculture and climate research

2022-09-14

AidData is leading a team of partners that has won a $4.74-million, four-year investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a project to spur the use of Earth Observation in how we study climate-sensitive agriculture across developing country geographies.

The First Tranche Blog

Beyond saving lives, landmine removal in Afghanistan clears path to development, study finds

2022-08-22

The First Tranche Blog

AidData launches new research initiative on gender equity in development

2022-07-08

Policy Brief

China’s influence in South and Central Asia: Competition in the Indian Ocean and China’s engagement with Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Policy Report

Corridors of Power: How Beijing uses economic, social, and network ties to exert influence along the Silk Road

Book

Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program

New Working Papers

Working Paper #

Why Hide? Africa’s Unreported Debt to China

Kathleen Brown

August 31, 2022

Working Paper #

Dueling Aid Regimes: A Conjoint Survey Experiment on Elites’ Development Finance Preferences in 141 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Robert A. Blair, Samantha Custer, Philip Roessler

July 25, 2022

Working Paper #

IMF Programs, Chinese Lending, and the Political Economy of Leader Survival

Andreas Kern, Bernhard Reinsberg, Patrick E. Shea

April 27, 2022

AidData's Research In the News

US Asks Pakistan to Seek Debt Relief from China After Floods

Bloomberg

Debt Defaults Are a Stress Test for China’s Soft Power Strategy

Bloomberg

China Reins In Its Belt and Road Program, $1 Trillion Later

The Wall Street Journal

Ecuador reaches $1.4bn debt restructuring deal with China

The Financial Times

About AidData

We use rigorous methods, cutting-edge tools, and granular data on international development to answer the question: who is doing what, where, for whom, and to what effect?

Programs

Chinese Development Finance

Weaving red ribbons on a grid

GeoQuery

Creating next-generation measurements of development outcomes, powerful tools for filtering and aggregating spatial data, and new geostatistical analysis and machine learning methods.

Geospatial Impact Evaluations

Rigorously evaluating the impacts and cost-effectiveness of specific development interventions and large investment portfolios with spatial data.

Listening to Leaders

Understanding the perspectives of leaders in low- and middle-income countries by collecting 360 degree feedback on development priorities, progress, and donor performance.

Transparent Development Finance

Tracking underreported financial flows from opaque donors, lenders, and investors who publicly disclose little about their spending priorities and activities.

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