Aid on Spreadsheets

Aid in the SDG-era: Understanding aid effectiveness using a disaggregated approach

The question of if and how foreign aid can help promote economic development in poor countries is a subject of controversy for academics and policymakers. This project will merge new aid data identifying where and when aid programs took place along with geographically located outcome data to investigate the effectiveness of aid. The project contains three subsections: 1) We will use location specific aid data to evaluate whether sub-national aid allocations are optimal from a poverty reduction perspective. This will highlight which donors and aid types reach the poorest segment of the population within recipient countries. 2) We will use the same data to study the effectiveness of aid projects by aid type, donor and sub-national locality, with a focus on aid promoting health, education and institution building (both formal and informal). As such, this section will identify what aid programs work, where and when, generating policy recommendations for future aid projects. 3) We will evaluate the unintended impacts of aid programmes on behavior and living conditions using both location specific aid data and detailed field studies. Aid programmes may have unintended consequences that are often not measured resulting in positive or negative spillovers. These spillovers may explain why some programs are more effective than others. Thus, this project will improve our understanding of aid effectiveness which, in turn, provides the foundations to reduce poverty and achieve the SDGs.

Project ID

SE-0-29-2017-05684_2-285-43082

Activity status

2 - Implementation

Aid type

D02 - Other technical assistance

% to Uganda

100.00

Organisations

Funding

Sweden

Implementing

Göteborgs universitet

Extending

None

CRS code	%
Research/scientific institutions (43082)	100.0