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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
Study website
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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 Collection Mode
Other [oth]

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
Development Research Group World Bank research@worldbank.org Link
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.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_AFR_1996_WDAAF_v02_M
Date of Metadata Production
2010-09-15
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.

Version 01 (September 2010)
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