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Personally, I am a "true believer" of the merits and beauty of aid transparency. But often people ask me, what all this standardised, open data can be used for. In the following guest blog, Mike Tierney, director of the international relations program at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va., and a principal investigator for the AidData initiative, gives one example of how data can help to analyse USA aid allocation in recent years. Read more »
People who argue for more transparency in development cooperation are often eager to point out all the merits of transparency. Unfortunately, often we are not very sure whether our claims are well founded. Even worse, there are very few examples who can illustrate how exactly „more transparency“ could look like. Read more »