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What Does Aid to Africa Finance ? 1970-1996

Africa, 1970 - 1996
Development Research Microdata
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Shantayanan Devarajan, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Vinaya Swaroop
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Identification

Survey ID Number
AFR_1996_WDAAF_v01_M
Title
What Does Aid to Africa Finance ? 1970-1996
Country
Name Country code
Africa AFR
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.

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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.

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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

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 www.microdata.worldbank.org on [date].

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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_v01_M
Date of Metadata Production
2010-09-15
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