AidData — A Research Lab at William & Mary

EARLIER

Panel Discussion: Beijing's Public Diplomacy in East Asia and the Pacific

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The First Tranche Blog

Powerful lessons for global development

2020-03-19

How much foreign direct investment are China and Russia putting into low- and middle-income countries? How much of China’s foreign aid supports their own strategic economic development? These are just some of the questions students are helping to answer at AidData.

The First Tranche Blog

Evaluating the impacts of a food security program in the face of climate shocks

2020-02-18

The First Tranche Blog

Five lessons on counting the costs of sustainable cities

2020-02-07

Counting the Costs

Mihir Prakash, Mengfan Cheng, Suzanne Schadel, Marco Kamiya

Policy Report

Silk Road Diplomacy: Deconstructing Beijing's toolkit to influence South and Central Asia

Policy Report

Influencing the Narrative: How the Chinese government mobilizes students and media to burnish its image

Programs

Catalyzing innovation in data, methods, and tools in five program areas that inform and empower development organizations, decision-makers, and stakeholders.

Geospatial Data & Tools for Analysis

Geospatial Impact Evaluations

Listening to Leaders

Sustainable Development Intelligence

Transparent Development Footprints

New Working Papers

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Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh

Samuel Brazys, Minhaj Mahmud, Arya Pillai

January 27, 2020

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Target at the Right Level: Aid, Spillovers and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Firat Demir, Yi Duan

January 27, 2020

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The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions

Zareh Asatryan, Annika Havlik

December 2, 2019

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The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa

Zhenqian Huang, Xun Cao

October 15, 2019

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Harnessing the Benefits of Transparency: Street-level Discretion, Targetability, and Local Public Service Delivery

Monika Bauhr, Ruth Carlitz

October 5, 2019

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China and the World Bank: How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States

Kai Gehring, Lennart Kaplan, Melvin H. L. Wong

September 17, 2019

AidData's Research In the News

As China builds up Africa, some in Uganda warn of trouble

Associated Press

The effect of aid is visible from space

Dagens Nyheter

China’s Xi Vows New Direction for ‘Belt and Road’ After Criticism

The Wall Street Journal

The new World Bank head wants some changes. That could backfire.

The Washington Post

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?