Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/80931 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2012/93
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Over many past decades countries in sub-Saharan Africa have received extensive bilateral and multilateral aid in support of the production of relevant, timely, and good quality data and statistics. But assessing aid effectiveness in the statistical area is a complex matter. Many datasets are effectively (global) public goods, as any restrictions on their availability and use are eventually relaxed. Hence it is extremely difficult to value or even measure the eventual impact of data production on general well-being. The aim of this paper is to review and scope how aid effectiveness might be assessed in this area. It sets out the context, the issues, and some possible approaches, going beyond existing measures of statistical capacity-building.
Subjects: 
aid
statistics
Africa
JEL: 
C80
C81
C82
O55
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-577-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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