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; Perlik, Kerstin; Robert, Charlotte (2025). Wedded to Prosperity? Spousal Favoritism in Foreign Aid and Regional Development. CEPR Discussion Paper 18878 (v.3).
News:
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 full 1.0 version of GODAD is now available for download (see data page).
6/2024: 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.