Analysing the aid effectiveness on the living standard: A check-up on Southeast Asian countries

Irfan, Zareena Begum; Nehra, Arpita

doi:10.1016/j.jum.2016.07.001

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“…The result justifies the effectiveness of developmental schemes and programs of foreign donors in Nigeria's health sector which has drastically increased access to infant immunization, thereby reducing mortality rate, and life expectancy rate in the country. By reporting a positive link between health ODA and health outcomes, this result agrees with the findings of Hsiao and Emdin (2015), Afridi and Ventelou (2013) and Kotsadam et al (2018) but contrasts the findings of Irfan and Nehra (2016).…”

Section: Bound Testing Analysissupporting

confidence: 85%

“…Studies abound in the literature on the impact of foreign aid on economic growth, health and education in both developed and developing countries (Afridi & Ventelou, 2013;Birchler & Michaelowa, 2016;Hsiao & Emdin, 2015;Irfan & Nehra, 2016;Kotsadam et al, 2018;Riddell & Nino-Zarazua, 2016). Several empirical studies have investigated the impact of foreign aid on human capital development based on cross country analysis.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Development Aid and Human Capital Development in Nigeria: A Sector Level-Analysis

Olanrele¹,

Awode²

2020

Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research

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Developing countries are generally faced with financial gap and budget constraints, and as such are dependent on aids to meet basic social and economic responsibilities. However, there are increasing concerns regarding the effectiveness of aid in developing countries, owing to worsening social and economic outcomes despite the huge amount of aid received from donor countries and institutions. This study therefore examines the effects of sector specific aid such as: health aid and education aid on life expectancy and primary school enrolment rate respectively in Nigeria, controlling for the influence of government expenditures on health and education. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model was adopted with annual data from 1981 to 2017. Findings revealed that health aid is beneficial as it significantly increases life expectancy by about 0.03%. Recurrent expenditure complemented health aid by increasing life expectancy by 0.03%. However, education aid is detrimental to primary school enrolment as it reduces the rate by 0.07%. Thus, it is concluded that education aid have not had the desired impact on education in Nigeria.

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Section: Bound Testing Analysissupporting

confidence: 85%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development Aid and Human Capital Development in Nigeria: A Sector Level-Analysis

Olanrele¹,

Awode²

2020

Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research

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“…Hence, the author suggests that more efforts need to go into democratization. Irfan and Nehra (2016), analyzed the aid effectiveness on the health status and living standard in the urban sector using infant mortality rate and improved sanitation facilities as respective indicators.…”

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confidence: 99%

Donor’s Motivation towards Providing Aid for Sustainable Initiatives: An Analysis of the Global Scenario

Irfan

Baswapoor

2020

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A substantial number of studies on development aid have explored the reasons for donor’s aid allocation decisions, but very few exist for the Sustainable Production and Consumption (SP&C) sector. This fails to provide evidence to policymakers to evaluate regarding inquiries about their allocative efficiency, equal allocation & rhetoric with regard to international commitment of Sustainable Production and Consumption. This study examines donors’ motivations to provide aid for the sustainable initiatives in general and sustainable production and consumption sector in particular using 35 donor and receptor countries worldwide between the time period 1992 and 2016. By examining four rational choice models, the results reveal that donors take into consideration their own self-interests as well as they cater to the recipients’ needs for allocation of aid. The study also finds that, more aid is given to countries with good governance capabilities and thus do not prioritize fragile states.

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“…Our baseline dynamic panel data model is fashioned after Irfan and Nehra (2016) who estimated a dynamic panel data model using the GMM. The model is represented in the following form:…”

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On the Dynamic Effect of Bilateral Concessional Debts on Living Standards in Sub-Saharan Africa

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This article assesses the effectiveness of bilateral concessional debts on living standards in 29 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over the period 1999-2017 using the system generalized method of moments (SGMM). The SGMM linear estimate is based on a two-step procedure, which controls for heteroscedasticity. The results provide evidence that bilateral concessional debts had positive and significant impact on living standards as proxied by the human development index (HDI) within the period. It is observed that 1% change in bilateral concessional debts is associated with about 8.4% improvement in living standards. Gross domestic savings are positively and significantly related to living standards and account for 3.1% increase in living standards. However, gross domestic investment and population growth exerted a negative influence on living standards during the period, whereas a 1% increase in gross domestic investment and population led to approximately 1.40% and 1.63% decline in living standards in the region, respectively. We therefore conclude that, although bilateral concessional debts have yielded the desired effect on living standards in the SSA, there is need for improvements in aid effectiveness. Thus, improved donor effort and collaboration with beneficiary governments in determining development needs and priorities in the region is critical.

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Analysing the aid effectiveness on the living standard: A check-up on Southeast Asian countries

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Development Aid and Human Capital Development in Nigeria: A Sector Level-Analysis

Development Aid and Human Capital Development in Nigeria: A Sector Level-Analysis

Donor’s Motivation towards Providing Aid for Sustainable Initiatives: An Analysis of the Global Scenario

On the Dynamic Effect of Bilateral Concessional Debts on Living Standards in Sub-Saharan Africa

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