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 (2024). Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism. CEPR Discussion Paper 18878.
News:
GODAD now includes aid projects for the 1973-2023 period for World Bank projects and the 2000-2021 period for Chinese official finance.
We will upload the full 1.0 version of GODAD after the “Analyzing Global Development with the Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD)” workshop on March 13-14, 2025. If you would like to use sub-sets of our data before the official release, please write to godad@listserv.dfn.de with a short explanation of what you would like to use the data for.
“Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism” won the 2023 Best Paper Award of the Annual Conference on the Political Economy of Aid