What Does Aid to Africa Finance ? 1970-1996

Burkina Faso, Botswana, Cameroon, Congo, Dem. Rep., Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, Eswa..., 1970 - 1996

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Reference ID

AFR_1996_WDAAF_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/gk00-m648

Producer(s)

Shantayanan Devarajan, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Vinaya Swaroop

Collection(s)

Development Research Microdata Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Apr 11, 2011

Last modified

Apr 27, 2021

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Identification

Survey ID number

AFR_1996_WDAAF_v01_M

Title

What Does Aid to Africa Finance ? 1970-1996

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Burkina Faso	BFA
Botswana	BWA
Cameroon	CMR
Congo, Dem. Rep.	COD
Ethiopia	ETH
Ghana	GHA
Kenya	KEN
Liberia	LBR
Lesotho	LSO
Madagascar	MDG
Mauritius	MUS
Malawi	MWI
Nigeria	NGA
Sudan	SDN
Eswatini	SWZ
Zambia	ZMB
Zimbabwe	ZWE

Study type

Macroeconomics - Indicators

Abstract

If a donor gives aid for a project that the recipient government would have undertaken anyway, then the aid is financing some expenditure other than the intended project. The notion that aid in this sense may be "fungible," while long recognized, has recently been receiving some empirical support. The paper "What Does Aid to Africa Finance?" focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa—the region with the largest GDP share of aid—and presents results that indicate that aid may be partially fungible, and suggests some reasons why.

This database contains data used for the analysis.

Kind of Data

Aggregate data [agg]

Scope

Notes

The dataset includes the following:

Population
Infant mortality
Primary and secondary school enrollment
GDP per capita
Concessionary loans
Government expenditure

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The database includes data from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sudan, Swaziland, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
Shantayanan Devarajan, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Vinaya Swaroop	World Bank

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
1970	1996

Time periods

Start date	End date
1970	1996

Data Access

Citation requirements

Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

the Identification of the Primary Investigator
the title of the survey (including acronym and year of implementation)
the survey reference number
the source and date of download

Example:

Shantayanan Devarajan et al., World Bank.What Does Aid to Africa Finance? (WDAAF) 1970-1996. Ref. AFR_1996_WDAAF_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://microdata.worldbank.org on [date].

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
Development Research Group	World Bank	research@worldbank.org	http://go.worldbank.org/B9W4QTDHR0

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_AFR_1996_WDAAF_v02_M

Date of Metadata Production

2010-09-15

Metadata version

DDI Document version

DDI Document - Version 02 - (04/27/21)
This version is identical to DDI_AFR_1996_WDAAF_v01_M but country field has been updated to capture all the countries covered by survey.