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A Race to the Top? The Aid Transparency Index and the Social Power of Global Performance Indicators – ERRATUM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2019

Abstract

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Erratum
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 2019 

In the original publication of Hoing and Weaver (Reference Honig and Weaver2019), several errors were introduced during the production of this article.

On page 589 paragraph 2, the figures mentioned in the text were labeled incorrectly. The correct paragraph is reproduced below:

A visual examination of ATI scores and changes over time underscores the heterogeneity of agency response to the ATI. The wide differences in donors’ behavior are demonstrated in Figure 1, which shows the variation in realized scores, and Figure 2, which compares each agency's score in its most recent year of ATI coverage to the agency's score in its first year of ATI coverage.

On page 594 footnote 42, a model number was labeled incorrectly. The correct footnote appears below:

42. Drawn from model 8, Table 4. Net treatment effect is the sum of the beta on the interaction term (37.97) and the beta on the effect of ATI coverage (-9.038).

In addition, page 595 should contain both figures 3 and 4. In paragraph 1, model numbers were mislabeled. The correct paragraph is reproduced below:

Figures 3 and 4 graphically represent the role of independence for aid and non-aid agencies respectively (Table 4, models 6 and 8), demonstrating the importance of agency independence for aid but not non-aid agencies.

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References

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