This website provides access to a broad range of geocoded Official Development Assistance and other development finance data. The Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD) includes 18 European donors (1973-2020), the United States (1973-2020), the World Bank (1995-2023), India (2007-2014), and China (2000-2021).
Please cite the GODAD as:
Bomprezzi, Pietro; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hailer, Teresa; Kammerlander, Andreas; Kaplan, Lennart; Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Robert, Charlotte; Unfried, Kerstin (2025). Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism. CEPR Discussion Paper 18878 (v.2).
News:
The full 1.0 version of GODAD is now available for download (see data page).
June 17: we updated the data so that the variables receiving_agencies and implementing_agencies include all values from the original World Bank data, correcting omissions in the previous version.
We invite submissions to a special issue in the Review of International Organizations on “Analyzing Global Development with the Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD).” If you would like to use GODAD data for a paper to be submitted to the RIO, please apply for data access at godad@listserv.dfn.de with a short abstract of your paper.
The “Analyzing Global Development with the Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD)” workshop was held in Göttingen on March 13-14, 2025.
GODAD now includes aid projects for the 1973-2023 period for World Bank projects and the 2000-2021 period for Chinese official finance.
“Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism” won the 2023 Best Paper Award of the Annual Conference on the Political Economy of Aid.