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Dec 11, 2014
Roodman, David, 2014, "Replication data for: The Anarachy of Numbers: Aid, Development, and Cross-country Empirics", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28164, Harvard Dataverse, V1
CGD working paper 32, "The Anarchy of Numbers: Aid, Development, and Cross-country Empirics" submits seven aid-growth studies to robustness testing and finds that most are fragile. The data used in the paper are in Excel (data set) and Stata formats (4-year and 5-year aggregates). Full results are available in Excel format. All are included in the... |
Dec 11, 2014
Roodman, David, 2014, "Net Aid Transfers data set (1960-2012)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28163, Harvard Dataverse, V1
In the CGD working paper An Index of Donor Performance (2005) David Roodman develops a new measure of foreign aid flow for use in the aid component of the Commitment to Development Index. The Net Aid Transfers (NAT) variable alters two aspects of the standard Net Overseas Development Assistance (Net ODA) measure that can be problematic for aid rese... |
Dec 11, 2014
Wheeler, David; Hammer, Dan; Kraft, Robin, 2014, "Replication data for: From REDD to Green: A Global Incentive System to Stop Tropical Forest Clearing", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28143, Harvard Dataverse, V1
In this paper, we develop and illustrate a prototype incentive system for promoting rapid reduction of forest clearing in tropical countries. Our proposed Tropical Forest Protection Fund (TFPF) is a cash-on-delivery system that rewards independently monitored performance without formal contracts. The system responds to forest tenure problems in man... |
Oct 20, 2014
Demombynes, Gabriel; Sandefur, Justin, 2014, "Replication data for: Costing a Data Revolution", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27667, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The lack of reliable development statistics for many poor countries has led the U.N. to call for a "data revolution" (United Nations, 2013). One fairly narrow but widespread interpretation of this revolution is for international aid donors to fund a coordinated wave of household surveys across the developing world, tracking progress on a new round... |
Jul 13, 2014
Sandefur, Justin; Glassman, Amanda, 2014, "The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey and Administrative Statistics", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/26712, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Across multiple African countries, discrepancies between administrative data and independent household surveys suggest official statistics systematically exaggerate development progress. We provide evidence for two distinct explanations of these discrepancies. First, governments misreport to foreign donors, as in the case of a results-based aid pro... |
Jun 30, 2014
Fan, Victoria; Duran, Denizhan; Silverman, Rachel; Glassman, Amanda, 2014, "Replication data for: Grant Performance and Payments at the Global Fund", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/26335, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Data set for "Grant Performance and Payment at the Global Fund" |
Jun 30, 2014
Fan, Victoria; Duran, Denizhan; Silverman, Rachel; Glassman, Amanda, 2014, "HIV/AIDS Intervention Packages in Five Countries: A Review of Budget Data", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/26334, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Data set for "HIV/AIDS Intervention Packages in Five Countries: A Review of Budget Data" The authors construct a sampling frame of 20 of the Global Fund's 'high-impact' countries.' From this frame, five countries - Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, India, the Philippines - are purposely selected for data extraction from the PGAs, as these countries... |
Jun 30, 2014
Ramachandran, Vijaya; Walz, Julie, 2014, "Replication data for: Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/26384, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This data set categorizes 980 nongovernmental and civil-society organizations operating in Haiti and includes information on sector, budget, location, year founded, number of employees, location of headquarters, and type of organization (when available). The data set accompanies CGD Policy Paper 004: "Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?" The organ... |
Jun 30, 2014
Ferretti-Gallon, Kalifi; Busch, Jonah, 2014, "Replication data for: What Drives Deforestation and What Stops It? A Meta-Analysis of Spatially Explicit Econometric Studies", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/26333, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Data Set for "What Drives Deforestation and What Stops It?" The authors compile a comprehensive database of 117 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation and present a meta-analysis based on 59059 coefficients in 554 multivariate analyses with the aim of understanding what factors drive deforestation and what policies can effectively... |
Jun 30, 2014
Glassman, Amanda; Zoloa, Juan Ignacio; Duran, Denizhan, 2014, "A Commitment to Vaccination Index: Measuring Government Progress toward Global Immunization", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/26370, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Data set for "A Commitment to Vaccination Index: Measuring Government Progress toward Global Immunization." All of the data is found within the Excel spreadsheet. |
