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

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2021-09-29

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This large-scale survey fielded in 2020 collects feedback from nearly 7,000 policymakers, practitioners and leaders in 141 low- and middle-income countries on development priorities, progress, and donor performance. It is used in the Listening to Leaders 2021 and Aid Reimagined reports.

Global China Data

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This uniquely granular dataset captures 13,427 development projects worth $843 billion financed by more than 300 Chinese government institutions and state-owned entities across 165 countries in every major region of the world from 2000-2017.

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October 6, 2022

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

In late 2020, nearly 7,000 leaders weighed in on the state of reforms in their countries, key barriers to progress, and what they most want from development partners.

September 29, 2021

AidData’s new dataset of 13,427 Chinese development projects worth $843 billion reveals major increase in ‘hidden debt’ and Belt and Road Initiative implementation problems

The analysis, based on a massive new dataset four years in the making, includes a special focus on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).