More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData

By Michael J. Tierney, Daniel L. Nielson, Darren Hawkins. 2011

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Are “New” Donors Challenging World Bank Conditionality? (2017, background): “Tierney et al. (2011) Saudi Arabia Comm (log) Saudi Arabia loan commitments received by a recipient country in a year in constant dollars.”
Local level climate justice? Adaptation finance and vulnerability reduction (2013, background): “…transfers are extracted from AidData 2.0, which defines development finance as loans or grants from governments, official government aid agencies, and inter-governmental organizations intended to promote economic development and welfare of developing countries (Tierney et al., 2011, p. 1892).”
China's Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection (2013, unknown): “However, without reliable project-level data on Chinese development finance, most of these hypotheses will remain untested and the ongoing policy debates will generate more heat than light (Tierney et al. 2011).”
How Aid Targets Votes: The Impact of Electoral Incentives on Foreign Aid Distribution (2014, unknown): “84 Tierney et al. 2011.”
Biodiversity, Governance, and the Allocation of International Aid for Conservation (2013, background): “Understanding where biodiversity aid has been directed and why may help answer whether and under what conditions aid is effective (Tierney et al. 2011).”
The international climate finance accounting muddle: is there hope on the horizon? (2019, background): “This is despite the fact that international experience in tracking development aid suggests that individual projectlevel data are crucial for improving effectiveness and coordination among contributors, recipients, implementing agencies and civil society (Tierney et al., 2011).”
Does foreign aid harm political institutions (2015, methodology): “Data on foreign aid is taken from the current (static) research release of the AidData database (version 2.1; see Tierney et al., 2011).10 Compared to the standard OECD-DAC creditor reporting system (CRS), which is integrated into the AidData records, the latter has the advantage of providing a…”
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices (2011, methodology): “We choose to rely on OECD DAC as our main source of data but do not suspect that our results would be significantly different if we were to use AidData (Tierney et al., 2011).”
Development aid and infant mortality. Micro-level evidence from Nigeria (2018, background): “We only use projects that correspond to AidData precision coding 3 and below, which defines a project as specific to a local government area.”
Coding Error or Statistical Embellishment? The Political Economy of Reporting Climate Aid (2011, methodology): “Keyword search in the project descriptions of the AidData database and complementary hand-coding allows us to assess all projects for their actual climate change-related content, and to thereby construct the most relevant control variable.”