The localized geography of foreign aid : A new dataset and application to violent armed conflict
The localized geography of foreign aid : A new dataset and application to violent armed conflict
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DOI：
10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.07.022
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发表时间：
2011-11
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6.9
通讯作者：
Michael G. Findley;Josh Powell;Daniel Strandow;Jeffrey Tanner
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作者：
Michael G. Findley;Josh Powell;Daniel Strandow;Jeffrey Tanner
现有的对外援助数据库——经合组织的 CRS 数据和现在的 AidData——都是基于项目的。然而，几乎所有使用这些数据的实证分析都汇总到国家年水平，从而丢失了特定项目的信息。在本文中，我们介绍了 1989 年至 2008 年间向许多非洲国家承诺的援助项目地理位置的新数据。这些数据可以在更广泛的系统研究背景下检查项目级信息。为了证明新数据的实用性，我们讨论了如何需要按地理分类的外国援助和武装冲突数据来捕捉援助冲突文献中的理论机制。然后，我们绘制了塞拉利昂、安哥拉和莫桑比克的分类援助和冲突数据，作为这些数据如何帮助理清将援助与冲突爆发和动态联系起来的相互竞争的因果机制的具体例子。这项研究为研究援助与冲突之间的联系提供了一个重要的新视角。更一般地说，这是地理参考并将外国援助项目与各种本地化发展成果进行比较的关键第一步。
Existing foreign aid databases – the OECD’s CRS data and now AidData – are project-based. And yet nearly all empirical analyses using these data aggregate to the country-year level, thereby losing project-specific information. In this paper, we introduce new data on the geographic location of aid projects that have been committed to many African countries between 1989 and 2008. The data enable an examination of project-level information in a wider variety of systematic research contexts. To demonstrate the utility of the new data, we discuss how geographically disaggregated foreign aid and armed conflict data are needed to capture the theoretical mechanisms in the aid-conflict literature. We then map the disaggregated aid and conflict data in Sierra Leone, Angola, and Mozambique as specific examples of how these data could help disentangle competing causal mechanisms linking aid to conflict onset and dynamics. The research provides an important new perspective on the connections between aid and conflict. More generally, it is a crucial first step in geo-referencing and comparing foreign aid projects to various localized development outcomes.