AidData — A Research Lab at William & Mary

As Mali weathers climate change, can irrigation projects help farmers adapt?

2022-07-06

A new geospatial impact evaluation by AidData examines the complicated impacts of irrigation interventions in the context of Mali’s ongoing armed conflict.

The First Tranche Blog

W&M hosts inaugural conference on China’s global influence

2022-07-06

The First Tranche Blog

Separating fact from fiction: China's growing global influence and its implications

2022-06-22

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 #

118

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

Andreas Kern, Bernhard Reinsberg, Patrick E. Shea

April 27, 2022

Working Paper #

117

Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance

Lukas Wellner, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C. Parks, Austin Strange

April 5, 2022

Working Paper #

116

What politicians don’t know can hurt you: The effects of information on politicians’ spending decisions

Ryan Jablonski, Brigitte Seim

Chinese Development Finance

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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As Mali weathers climate change, can irrigation projects help farmers adapt?

W&M hosts inaugural conference on China’s global influence

Separating fact from fiction: China's growing global influence and its implications

Policy Brief

Policy Report

Book

New Working Papers

April 27, 2022

April 5, 2022

March 31, 2022

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