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) 1.0 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 1.0 as:
Bomprezzi, Pietro; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hailer, Teresa; Kammerlander, Andreas; Kaplan, Lennart; Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Perlik, Kerstin; Robert, Charlotte (2025). Wedded to Prosperity? Spousal Favoritism in Foreign Aid and Regional Development. CEPR Discussion Paper 18878 (v.3).
News:
3/2026: We started the GODAD working paper series. If you would like to have your paper included let us know: godad@listserv.dfn.de.
12/2025: We received a grant from the German Science Foundation (DFG) that allows us to update GODAD and add further donors, including private donors.
The “Analyzing Global Development with the Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD)” workshop was held in Göttingen on March 13-14, 2025.
“Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism” won the 2023 Best Paper Award of the Annual Conference on the Political Economy of Aid.