Replication Data for: Do China's aid projects increase access to electricity in Africa? A perspective of spatial spillover effects among recipient countries

This work aims to explore whether China’s aid projects increase access to electricity in Sub-Saharan African countries with considering the spatial spillover effects among the recipient countries. To better understand the effect of China's aid projects on the access to electricity, the research compares the aid projects and technical assistance of OECD. The Moran index of Chinese aid projects is close to 0, indicating that the spatial distribution of project aid is random, and thus benefits a region. Whereas technical assistance usually benefits a specific country. The estimated coefficients of the direct and indirect effects of both aid projects and technical assistance in the short-term are positive, indicating that both aids help the recipient countries to increase access to electricity in the short-term. The misallocation effect of aid resources from neighboring countries can inhibit the access to electricity of recipient countries. The coefficient of the time lag term is roughly 0.5, indicating that the access to electricity of recipient countries not only has spatial spillover effects but also temporal path dependence effects. However, the spatial spillover effect has a greater impact on the access to electricity of recipient countries than the path dependence effect. (2023-01-14