Effects of the Japanese Development Assistance on the Economic Growth of Recipient Countries

在本研究中，我们构建了一个日本双边ODA的面板数据，总结了每个项目和每个计划。它包含了每个受援国、每个部门和每年的援助金额。首先，我们将ODA支出分为三大模式：贷款、赠款和技术援助/合作（TA/TC）。根据发展援助委员会（发援会）的国际标准对部门进行定义。受援国总数为168个。贷款、赠款和技术援助的数据分别为1966年至2004年、1968年至2004年和1988年至2004年。贷款援助的数据来源是通商产业省（MITI）发行的年度白色白皮书《经济合作的现状和问题》（日文），该白皮书于2000年终止。因此，从2001年起，我们主要使用“ODA数据手册（日文）”，这是外务省（MOFA）发布的年度白色文件。然而，这缺乏一些关于贷款条件的重要信息，例如 ...更多信息 e总金额、利率和付款条件。此外，一些项目还设定了多种利率。较高的是贷款本身，较低的是顾问支出。在这种情况下，我们查阅了日本国际协力银行（JBIC）的主页，或者直接要求JBIC补充数据。赠款援助的两个数据来源与贷款援助相同。请注意，两者都是承诺数字，而不是付款。在日本的官方发展援助中，承诺额几乎等于实际支付额。日本国际协力事业团（JICA）分配了日本大约60%的技术援助/技术合作，其他部委和机构负责处理其余部分。由于日本国际协力事业团的年度报告没有包括所有的官方发展援助支出（付款），我们直接要求日本国际协力事业团提供截至2003年的数据。2004年，日本国际协力事业团的主页开始列入这些数据。可惜，我们没有透过其他政府机构把电讯局长/训练局包括在内，因为这些机构大部分都不向公众开放。少

In this research, we construct a panel data of Japanese bilateral ODA, summarizing each project and each program. It contains the amount of aid to each recipient, for each sector, and in each year. First, we classified the total ODA spending into three big modalities : Loan, Grant, and Technical Assistance/Cooperation (TA/TC). Sector is defined according to the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) as an international standard. Total number of recipient countries is 168. Data is covered from 1966 to 2004 for loans, 1968 to 2004 for grants, and 1988 to 2004 for TA/TC.Data source of loan aid was "Present Situation and Problems of Economic Cooperation (in Japanese)," an annual white paper issued by Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), which was terminated in 2000. Thus, from 2001, we mainly used "ODA data book (in Japanese)," an annual white paper issued by Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). However, this lacks some important information on the loan conditions such as th … More e total amounts, the interest rates, and the terms of payments. Furthermore, multiple interest rates are set for some projects. The higher one is for the loan itself and the lower one is for the consultant spending. In such cases, we checked the homepage of Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) or directly asked JBIC to supplement our data.Two data sources of grant aid were the same as those of loan aid. Please note that both are commitment figures not the disbursement. In Japanese ODA, commitments is almost equal to the disbursements. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) distributes approximately 60 % of Japanese TA/TC and the other Ministries and Agencies deal with the rest. Since an annual report by JICA did not include all the ODA expenditures (disbursements), we directly asked JICA to complete our data until 2003. In 2004, the homepage of JICA started to include those data. Unfortunately, we did not include the TA/TC through the other government institutions because the greater part of them is not open to the public. Less