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We assess the dynamics behind the high net resource transfers of donors and creditors - IDA, bilaterals, IBRD, IMF and other multilateral creditors - to the countries of sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Analyzing a panel of 37 recipient countries over the years 1978-98, we find that...
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This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our … significant effect on growth; (ii) aid in post-primary education has an adverse effect or at best no significant impact on growth …; and (iii) growth increases as aid in primary education as a share of total education aid rises. …
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This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our … significant effect on growth; (ii) aid in post-primary education has an adverse effect or at best no significant impact on growth …; and (iii) growth increases as aid in primary education as a share of total education aid rises. …
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This study investigates the effect of foreign aid on education and lifelong learning in 53 African countries for the … period 1996-2010. Three main issues are assessed, notably: (i) the effect of aid on education; (ii) the incremental impact of … aid on education and (iii) the effect of aid on lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is measured as the combined knowledge …
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This study investigates the effect of foreign aid on education and lifelong learning in 53 African countries for the … period 1996-2010. Three main issues are assessed, notably: (i) the effect of aid on education; (ii) the incremental impact of … aid on education and (iii) the effect of aid on lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is measured as the combined knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903746
Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033099
policy on education and health. The study employs panel dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) estimation technique and covers … the period 1980-2017. The results reveal that foreign aid augmented with effective fiscal policy on education … and consumption in West and Southern regions. Furthermore, foreign aid augmented with effective fiscal policy in education …
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Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors … - has not featured in Africa's post-1995 growth story. As a result, the region's fastest growing economies have the least …
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the world. Using AidData for 2000-13, this paper examines the effects of aid to productive sectors on manufacturing growth … in Africa. Econometric results show that increased assistance to these sectors is associated with an increase in growth … productive sectors and growth of the manufacturing sector. These findings make an important contribution to the economic …
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