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
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
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
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
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
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
How does foreign aid change public spending in a country? The results from our latest experiment shed light on the political and economic consequences of foreign aid. Ryan Jablonski, Brigitte Seim, Johan Ahlback
AidData publishes 100th working paper in series Six years later, the AidData Working Paper series has now attracted a global readership and authorship. Ariel BenYishay
U.S. contributions to Kenya estimated at over $3 billion annually, according to new AidData research The report is the first to provide a whole-of-society view of U.S. contributions to Kenya’s economy and development. John Custer, Soren Patterson
AidData launches third Listening to Leaders Survey in 141 countries The survey goes out to 100,000 in-country leaders, gauging attitudes on priorities, reforms, and partnerships. Alex Wooley
In 'Nature': Using GIE to map deforestation in the Amazon rainforest AidData's Ariel BenYishay co-authored a new paper in Nature Sustainability on how land titling programs impact Amazon forest loss. Nathan Warters/W&M News
Making data work for refugee and migrant children Overcoming blind spots in how we produce and use data about refugee and migrant children will help decision makers better direct resources to them. Sasan Faraj, Soren Patterson
