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Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

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Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early 21st Century

Why does aid not target the poorest?

Public Infrastructure Provision and Ethnic Favouritism: Evidence from South Africa

Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects

Estimating Financing to the Sustainable Development Goals, Version 2.0

Financing the SDGs: Evidence in Four Countries

Are donors targeting the greatest health needs? Evidence from mining sites in the D.R.Congo

Is Sunshine the Best Disinfectant? Foreign Direct Investment, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and Local Corruption

Mining, Rural Livelihoods and Food Security: A Disaggregated Analysis of Sub- Saharan Africa

Chinese aid and local ethnic identification

Does Private Aid Follow the Flag? An Empirical Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance

The Effects of Foreign Aid on Rebel Governance: Evidence from a Large-Scale U.S. Aid Program in Syria

Evidence on Wealth-Improving Effects of Forest Concessions in Liberia

Autocratic Aid and Governance: What We Know, Don’t Know, and Need to Know

Does Development Aid Address Political Exclusion? A Disaggregated Study of the Location of Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa

Closing the Broken Feedback Loop: Can Responsive Aid Strengthen State Legitimacy?

Building Bridges or Breaking Bonds? The Belt and Road Initiative and Foreign Aid Competition

Distortions in Aid Allocation of United Nations Flash Appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance

Can Providing Local Data on Aid and Population Needs Improve Development Decision-Making?

Aid and Conflict at the Sub-National Level: Evidence from World Bank and Chinese Development Projects in Africa

The impact of an insecticide treated bednet campaign on all-cause child mortality: A geospatial impact evaluation from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Parceling out prosperity? An impact evaluation of natural resource sector investments in Liberia

Final Report: Evaluation of the On-Farm Water Management Program

Grassroots Image Management: Confucius Institutes and Media Perceptions of China

When do performance assessments influence policy behavior? Micro-evidence from the 2014 Reform Efforts Survey

GeoQuery: Integrating HPC systems and public web-based geospatial data tools

Democracy and Aid Donorship

Top Lights: Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development

Priming the Pump: Does Aid Pave the Way for Investment?

Health aid projects have both expanded and constrained the capacity of health facilities to deliver malaria services to under-five children in Malawi

DREAMS Innovation Challenge: Applying data to increase impact of HIV/AIDS Prevention for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Uganda

Assessing the Causal Impact of Chinese Aid on Vegetative Land Cover in Burundi and Rwanda Under Conditions of Spatial Imprecision

Counting on Statistics: How can national statistical offices and donors increase use?

Evaluation of the Infrastructure Needs Program II

Evaluation of the Local Governance and Infrastructure Program

International Diffusion of Development Knowledge: A Field Experiment on Officials' Responses to Impact Evidence in Peru

Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

Foreign aid and growth: A Sp P-VAR analysis using satellite sub-national data for Uganda.

Estimating Spatial Treatment Effects: An Application to Base Closures and Aid Delivery in Afghanistan

Honor among Chiefs: An Experiment on Monitoring and Diversion Among Traditional Leaders in Malawi

China in Africa: Competition for Traditional Development Finance Institutions?

Implementation Level in World Bank Projects: National vs. Local Allocation of Power

The Effects of Chinese Aid on State Legitimacy in Africa: Cross-National and Sub-National Evidence from Surveys, Survey Experiments, and Behavioral Games

The Local Impacts of World Bank Development Projects Near Sites of Conservation Significance

The Political Geography of Government Projects: Evidence from +/- 40,000 Projects in Ghana

Secondary School Electrification in Western Kenya

Bypass Aid and Perceptions of Local Government Performance and Legitimacy

Foreign Aid and Subnational Development: A Grid Cell Analysis

Ties That Bind: Quantifying China's public diplomacy and its "good neighbor" effect

The Effects of Trade, Aid, and Investment on China's Image in Developing Countries

The Donor Footprint and Gender Gaps

Listening to Leaders 2018: Is development cooperation tuned-in or tone-deaf?

Aid Curse with Chinese Characteristics? Chinese Development Flows and Economic Reforms

The Impact of Health Service Delivery on Political Support: Evidence from the Nigerian Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme

Chinese Development Assistance and Household Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa

Geostatistical Tools to Map the Interaction between Development Aid and Indices of Need

Natural resource sector FDI, government policy, and economic growth: Quasi-experimental evidence from Liberia

Bypass Aid and Unrest in Autocracies

Chinese aid and local corruption

Toward data-driven education systems: Insights into using information to measure results and manage change

Development aid and infant mortality. Micro-level evidence from Nigeria

The Political Economy of Aid Allocation in Africa: Evidence from Zambia

Apples and Dragon Fruits: The Determinants of Aid and Other Forms of State Financing from China to Africa

Quantifying Heterogeneous Causal Treatment Effects in World Bank Development Finance Projects

Breaking the Clientelistic Voting Equilibrium: The Joint Importance of Salience and Coordination

Decoding Data Use: How do leaders source data and use it to accelerate development?

Estimating Baseline Aid to the Sustainable Development Goals