Do bilateral and multilateral foreign aid donors target poverty? To answer that question, we present a framework for assessing the quality of aid targeting sub-nationally. If donors cluster aid in areas with concentrated poverty, or spread out aid in areas of diffuse poverty, then we conclude that donors are targeting aid well. Furthermore, because co-financing may be a mechanism that improves coordination and information-sharing among donors, we examine whether the frequency of donor co-financing increases the quality of aid targeting. Recently released sub-national georeferenced foreign aid data for all bilateral and multilateral donors are available in five sub-Saharan African countries, making it possible to map the placement of foreign aid along with sub-national poverty levels. Results indicate that foreign donors target poverty in some countries but not others, and higher co-financing is associated with lower quality targeting across all cases.

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“群体原则”：撒哈拉以南非洲援助目标和捐助者协调的次国家空间分析

双边和多边外援捐助者是否针对贫困？为了回答这个问题，我们提出了一个评估国家以下各级援助质量的框架。如果捐助者将援助集中在贫困集中地区，或将援助分散到分散贫困地区，那么我们得出的结论是，捐助者的援助目标很好。此外，由于共同融资可能是一种改善捐助者之间协调和信息共享的机制，我们研究了捐助者共同融资的频率是否会提高援助目标的质量。最近发布的所有双边和多边捐助者的国家以下地理参考外援数据可用于五个撒哈拉以南非洲国家，从而可以绘制外援的位置以及国家以下的贫困水平。