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What Does Aid to Africa Finance ? 1970-1996

Burkina Faso, Botswana, Cameroon...and 14 more, 1970 - 1996
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Reference ID
AFR_1996_WDAAF_v01_M
Producer(s)
Shantayanan Devarajan, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Vinaya Swaroop
Collections
Africa Eastern and Southern
Metadata
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Sep 12, 2021
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  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    AFR_1996_WDAAF_v01_M
    Title

    What Does Aid to Africa Finance ? 1970-1996
    Country
    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
    Mode of data collection
    • Other [oth]

    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

    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.

    Version 01 (September 2010)
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