ThE First Tranche Blog

Empowering women through data-driven insights: AidData’s Gender in Development Research Symposium

2024-07-10

Participants at AidData’s Gender in Development Symposium at William & Mary pose in the conference room. Photo by Samantha Hughes, used with permission.

The symposium builds on AidData’s Gender Equity in Development Initiative, which has mobilized $2.3m in funding for gender-focused research.

AidData’s Training and Instructional Design Manager, Sethu Nguna, stands on the right as she leads a hands-on data workshop for the 2024 Mandela Washington Fellows Program. Photo by Sethu Nguna, used with permission.
ThE First Tranche Blog

Extending AidData’s global reach and impact through a new training initiative

2024-07-08

Image by Sarina Patterson. Map insets of projects produced by AidData from china.aiddata.org. Background satellite imagery from Blue Marble: Next Generation produced by Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory, accessed at https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/.
ThE First Tranche Blog

AidData launches new Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset

2024-06-11

AidData’s Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset

Journal Article

AidData’s Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset

Beijing’s Big Bet on the Philippines: Decoding two decades of China’s financing for development

Policy Report

Beijing’s Big Bet on the Philippines: Decoding two decades of China’s financing for development

Investing in Tanzania's People | Kuwekeza kwa Watu wa Tanzania

Policy Report

Investing in Tanzania's People | Kuwekeza kwa Watu wa Tanzania

About AidData

We use rigorous methods, cutting-edge tools, and granular data on international development to answer the question: who is doing what, where, for whom, and to what effect?

AidData's Research In the News

The Chinese Base That Isn’t There

The New York Times

Mobilizing Clean Energy Financing through the Multilateral Development Banks

Council on Foreign Relations

A New Chinese Megaport in South America Is Rattling the U.S.

The Wall Street Journal

China emerges as one of biggest bilateral lenders to Philippines

The Financial Times

New Working Papers

Working Paper #
127

Transport infrastructure and the spatial distribution of CO2 emissions

Martin Kleimann, Hans-Jörg Schmerera

January 31, 2024

Working Paper #
126

Aiding education? The effect of international aid on local educational enrolment in Nigeria

Roos Haer and Gudrun Østby

November 30, 2023

Working Paper #
125

Landmine Clearance and Economic Development: Evidence from Nighttime Lights, Multispectral Satellite Imagery, and Conflict Events in Afghanistan

Christian Baehr, Ariel BenYishay, Rachel Sayers, Kunwar Singh, Madeleine Walker

May 12, 2023

Programs

China’s Global Engagement

Systematically tracking China's portfolio of overseas investments and soft power activities

Foreign Policy Influence

Quantifying the economic and soft power tools of China, Russia, and the United States

Gender Equity in Development

Innovation in research to reduce gender bias in development

GeoQuery

Enabling the next generation of geospatial analysis

Geospatial Tools and Impact Evaluations

Innovation and rigor to measure impact more effectively

Listening to Leaders

Perspectives of leaders in low- and middle-income countries