Development aid contracts database: World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and EuropeAid.

ABSTRACT: This article presents a global database of government contracts funded by the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and EuropeAid, principally from the years 2000-2017. The contract-level data were directly collected from the official contract publication sites of these organisations using webscraping methods. While the source publication formats are diverse both over time and across publishers, we standardized and harmonized the datasets so that they can be analysed jointly. The datasets contain key information on the contracting parties (e.g. buyer and supplier names) the contract's content (e.g. contract value and product description) and details of the contracting process (e.g. contract award date or the procedure followed). In addition, it also contains information on the develo

SUBMITTER: Fazekas M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9019226 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature