AidData — A Research Lab at William & Mary

Shining a spotlight on global inequality in the fight against HIV/AIDS: the view from Somaliland

2022-12-01

On World AIDS Day, a look at ongoing work to overcome stigma, close information gaps, and strengthen health information systems in Somaliland.

The First Tranche Blog

New report on a global survey of developing country leaders reimagines aid

2022-10-06

The First Tranche Blog

As budgets shrink, study finds little evidence aid is directed to the worst-off

2022-09-30

Policy Report

Delivering the Belt and Road: Decoding the supply of and demand for Chinese overseas development projects

Policy Report

Aid Reimagined: How can foreign assistance support locally-led development?

Book

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

Aid Reimagined: How can foreign assistance support locally-led development?

Delivering the Belt and Road: Decoding the supply of and demand for Chinese overseas development projects

New global dashboard and datasets on China's public diplomacy worldwide

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?

AidData's Research In the News

Chinese foreign development aims and impact — Brad Parks on "Intelligence Matters"

CBS News

How Xi has changed China

CNN

Despite Huge Problems, Pakistan Remains Indispensable to China

The China in Africa Podcast

China-indebted Laos way more broke than advertised

Asia Times

New Working Papers

Working Paper #

121

Aiding and Abetting: Is donor Official Development Assistance competition greatest in sectors key to Chinese interest?

Daniel Benson, Yundan Gong

October 31, 2022

Working Paper #

120

Why Hide? Africa’s Unreported Debt to China

Kathleen Brown

August 31, 2022

Working Paper #

119

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

Programs

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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