What Does Aid to Africa Finance ? 1970-1996 - Burkina Faso, Botswana, Cameroon...and 14 more

Abstract
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If a donor gives aid for a project that the recipient government would have undertaken anyway, then the aid is financing some expenditure other than the intended project. The notion that aid in this sense may be "fungible," while long recognized, has recently been receiving some empirical support. The paper "What Does Aid to Africa Finance?" focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa—the region with the largest GDP share of aid—and presents results that indicate that aid may be partially fungible, and suggests some reasons why.

This database contains data used for the analysis.

Geographic coverage
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The database includes data from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sudan, Swaziland, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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Aggregate data [agg]

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Other [oth]

摘要
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若捐赠者对受援国政府本应自行承担的项目提供援助，则此类援助实际上是在资助除原定项目外的其他支出。虽然这种意义上的援助可能具有‘可替代性’的观点早已得到广泛认可，但近期却得到了一些实证支持。论文《援助非洲究竟资助了什么？》聚焦于撒哈拉以南非洲——该地区援助在GDP中所占份额最大——并呈现了表明援助可能部分具有可替代性的结果，并提出了若干原因。

本数据库包含了用于分析的数据。
地理覆盖范围
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数据库涵盖了博茨瓦纳、布基纳法索、喀麦隆、埃塞俄比亚、冈比亚、加纳、肯尼亚、莱索托、利比里亚、马达加斯加、马拉维、毛里求斯、尼日利亚、苏丹、斯威士兰、扎伊尔、赞比亚和津巴布韦等国的数据。
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数据为汇总数据 [agg]
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其他 [oth]