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New study shines a light on Beijing’s secretive international lending program An unprecedented cache of documents shows that Chinese loan contracts have unusual secrecy provisions, collateral requirements, and debt renegotiation restrictions. AidData
2021-03-31

New study shines a light on Beijing’s secretive international lending program

An unprecedented cache of documents shows that Chinese loan contracts have unusual secrecy provisions, collateral requirements, and debt renegotiation restrictions.

New insights into geospatial data at NYC Open Data Week 2021 How can innovative sources and applications of open geospatial data be used to empower insights at a global scale? Soren Patterson
2021-03-24

New insights into geospatial data at NYC Open Data Week 2021

How can innovative sources and applications of open geospatial data be used to empower insights at a global scale?

Aid distributions to the most vulnerable remained equitable even after Nigeria crossed a key income threshold, study finds The country avoided one potential unintended consequence of a policy question that will affect nearly two dozen countries over the next decade. John Custer, Soren Patterson
2021-03-01

Aid distributions to the most vulnerable remained equitable even after Nigeria crossed a key income threshold, study finds

The country avoided one potential unintended consequence of a policy question that will affect nearly two dozen countries over the next decade.

A young boy drinks clean water from a fountain. Photo by Shutterstock.
Empowering global insights with geospatial data AidData’s new video series helps you get started with GeoQuery, our platform for creating customized geospatial datasets. Soren Patterson, Parker Kim
2021-02-24

Empowering global insights with geospatial data

AidData’s new video series helps you get started with GeoQuery, our platform for creating customized geospatial datasets.

Listening for influence: AidData and African Population and Health Research Center partner to improve policy impact A joint survey yields insights on how research organizations in Africa like APHRC can collect and respond to feedback data from the policymakers they seek to influence. Tanya Sethi, Grace Kibunja, Soren Patterson
2021-01-14

Listening for influence: AidData and African Population and Health Research Center partner to improve policy impact

A joint survey yields insights on how research organizations in Africa like APHRC can collect and respond to feedback data from the policymakers they seek to influence.

A community healthcare worker takes records of a patient’s wellbeing. Photo by APHRC, used with permission.
AidData wins two-year Hewlett Foundation grant to build research partnerships in Africa A new $600,000 grant from the Hewlett Foundation will help AidData bolster engagement with policy makers and influencers in Africa Alex Wooley
2020-12-08

AidData wins two-year Hewlett Foundation grant to build research partnerships in Africa

A new $600,000 grant from the Hewlett Foundation will help AidData bolster engagement with policy makers and influencers in Africa

AidData staff meet with the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and the Ministry of Health during a trip in fall 2019. Photo by Elizabeth Teare for AidData.
A “new” type of data for development AidData’s next-generation measures of important development outcomes use machine learning to help policy makers overcome data gaps. John Custer, Seth Goodman
2020-11-13

A “new” type of data for development

AidData’s next-generation measures of important development outcomes use machine learning to help policy makers overcome data gaps.

AidData wins two-year Ford Foundation grant to close the evidence gap on China’s Belt and Road Initiative Ford Foundation grants AidData $200,000 to examine Chinese development finance. Alex Wooley
2020-10-23

AidData wins two-year Ford Foundation grant to close the evidence gap on China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Ford Foundation grants AidData $200,000 to examine Chinese development finance.

Ebola Response workers stand outside the Chinese Ebola treatment unit (ETU) in Monrovia, Liberia, during a ceremony as Liberia's last Ebola patient was released on 5 March 2015
Open Data Center for Health enables Côte d’Ivoire’s health workers to improve HIV program coverage A handoff ceremony caps a two-year effort to improve the data and tools accessible to the country’s health workers
2020-09-09

Open Data Center for Health enables Côte d’Ivoire’s health workers to improve HIV program coverage

A handoff ceremony caps a two-year effort to improve the data and tools accessible to the country’s health workers

Health officials in Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire examine a global positioning system device
Chinese infrastructure investments shift economic activity, reduce spatial inequalities, finds new paper The paper shows that Chinese projects relocate economic activity from city centers to peripheries. Soren Patterson
2020-08-18

Chinese infrastructure investments shift economic activity, reduce spatial inequalities, finds new paper

The paper shows that Chinese projects relocate economic activity from city centers to peripheries.

Urael station of Addis Ababa’s Chinese-financed light rail. Photo by Nebyu derseh tenaw, licensed under (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Plan B for development impact evaluations? Going remote. New methods to predict missing geospatial data could reduce barriers to evaluating development programs in hard-to-reach areas. John Custer
2020-07-27

Plan B for development impact evaluations? Going remote.

New methods to predict missing geospatial data could reduce barriers to evaluating development programs in hard-to-reach areas.

Un Plan B pour évaluer l’impact du développement? Aller dans les zones reculées. De nouvelles méthodes de prédiction des données géospatiales manquantes pourraient permettre de réduire les obstacles à l’évaluation des programmes de développement dans les zones difficiles d’accès. John Custer
2020-07-26

Un Plan B pour évaluer l’impact du développement? Aller dans les zones reculées.

De nouvelles méthodes de prédiction des données géospatiales manquantes pourraient permettre de réduire les obstacles à l’évaluation des programmes de développement dans les zones difficiles d’accès.