Opaque Transparency & Canada’s Foreign Aid Program

Stephen Brown (University of Ottawa) and I have written a short comment on issues of transparency in Canada’s foreign aid program for The McLeod Group.  Our thoughts in the piece stemmed from discussion during a panel at the recent Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) meetings.  Hopefully Canada can do even more to … Read more

IATI Import for Stata

Overall, I have been very impressed with the level of support of the foreign aid community globally for open data.  The International Aid Transparency Initiative in particular has championed this cause and now functions as a centralized clearinghouse for such data in the IATI standard. As a sociologist who sometimes analyzes aid data for my … Read more