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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

development aid, public health, foreign aid

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Political Science

Abstract

Between 2007 and 2009 the students in my mentoring research program helped fill out the Project-Level Aid (PLAID) Database, now called AidData and located at aiddata.org, to such an extent that the academic fruits became both evident and prominent. With the help of the mentored students we were able to expand, improve, and finally release the database. It has become the most useful tool for pursuing research questions regarding foreign aid and development assistance. It has also become a frequented site of aid policymakers and practitioners. It is – by far – the most comprehensive database on development finance, with nearly one million project records and more than $4.2 trillion tracked. In 2008, PLAID received $2.4 million in grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The MEG grants provided the seed money for these larger awards. We rolled out AidData at a prominent conference held at Oxford University in March of 2010.

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