•Aid to water and sanitation increases access to these services in sub-Saharan Africa.•Aid to water and sanitation lowers urban–rural gaps in access in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Sustainable Development ...target of ensuring access to water and sanitation for all by 2030 has far-reaching implications for the achievement of the other SDGs. However, achieving this target remains a major challenge for sub-Saharan Africa, and the ability of governments in the region to expand access is constrained by limited financial resources. This paper investigates whether targeting foreign aid to the water and sanitation sector can help achieve the goal of expanding access to water and sanitation services in sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis is based on panel data estimation techniques controlling for country-specific effects and potential endogeneity of regressors. The econometric results suggest that increased aid targeted to the supply of water and sanitation is associated with increased access to these services, although the relationship is non-linear. The evidence in this study makes an important contribution to the scholarly debate on aid effectiveness. It also has important practical implications for aid policy: specifically, it suggests that in addition to scaling up aid disbursements to sub-Saharan African countries, donors need to increase aid allocation to water and sanitation as well as other areas where the region lags behind. There is also a need to identify structural constraints that may limit access to water and sanitation, and utilize foreign aid so as to alleviate these constraints.
Education began to be included as a component of foreign assistance in the early 1960s as it is a principal ingredient of development. A number of multilateral and bilateral agencies were established ...around this time to implement various types of aid programmes; however, their effectiveness is constantly being questioned and challenged due to a variety of problems. This paper reviews the past and current activities of bilateral, multilateral organizations and private donors in education aid, examines their effectiveness, discusses major problems in implementing educational programmes and suggests ways to improve aid in education.
This article analysis how official development aid (ODA) flows impact the international growth opportunities and processes of private firms in donor and recipient countries. It explores the ...differentiated impact of bilateral and multilateral aid flows, as well as flows coming from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and non‐DAC donors. The study relies on a systematic literature review of the empirical articles published between 2005 and 2021 in internationally recognised academic journals. The review provides a comprehensive overview of the topic and identifies conclusive findings, existing gaps, avenues for future research and policy implications. Overall, the literature shows a positive impact of ODA flows on the international growth opportunities for firms in donor countries, whether derived from their direct engagement in aid‐financed projects or from non‐direct effects like the reputational capital and positive image accrued by donor countries in recipient ones. Conversely, empirical evidence relative to the impact on firms in recipient nations is mixed and points to the existence of factors that condition the impact of ODA flows, among them, the institutional strength in recipient countries and the formulas through which ODA flows are channelled.
This article analyses the motivations, priorities and financing of Galician Official Development Aid (ODA) in relation to Spanish ODA. We will focus mainly on the Portuguese-speaking African ...countries (PALOP), paying special attention to the cases of Cape Verde and Mozambique, both priorities for the Galician cooperation programs, due to their linguistic proximity and the fact that fishing takes on a significant role. To understand the orientations of Galician ODA, it is important to consider three priorities, geographical, sectoral and cultural. Fishing is relevant in any of these priorities, as a strategic sector for the economy of Galicia and Portuguese-speaking countries due to the linguistic proximity between Galician and Portuguese. Therefore, there is a willingness to project regional interests in foreign actions, although always coordinated along the main Spanish and European cooperation lines. However, the decentralised policy of Galician cooperation, characterised in economic terms by its weakness, has encountered certain difficulties in developing its strategies. The main difficulty lies in the small size of Galician Non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs), which are unable to manage large projects, while bigger NGDOs manage a large part of the cooperation funds, with national or international interests that do not always coincide with the interests of Galicia. In this article we will show that, despite these drawbacks, the fishing orientation of ODA in Galicia is still relevant, and cooperation with Portuguese-speaking countries is also unique in the Spanish context. However, it is necessary to strengthen a regional vision that can generate more benefits for both the donor region and the receiving country, as well as helping the local population to better understand the meaning and benefits generated by ODA.
•Galicia (Spain) enjoys wide autonomy to design and direct its policy of development cooperation.•In terms of productive specialisation and employment, Galicia is a region where the fishing economy is of great importance.•The Lusophone world its considers as a great opportunity and a priority for Galician foreign action.•In the 2014–2017 period was reinforced the fishing specialisation of Galician ODA in the context of Spain.•Galician ODA raise doubts regarding the objective of reinforcing cultural and linguistic ties with the Lusophony.
This study examines the effect of country-specific Official Development Aid (ODA) and institutional quality on economic growth for Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV) countries from 2002 to ...2017. Our results indicate that: First, the impact of ODA from Germany, Japan and France on economic growth is conditional on the level of institutional quality of CLMV countries. The ODA has a negative impact on growth when institutional quality is low. Beyond a threshold of institutional quality, ODA promotes economic growth. Second, the results are robust after controlling for outliers and endogeneity in the model. Third, the further analysis provides evidence that the mitigating effect of institutional quality works through both labour productivity and human capital growth channel. Based on the findings, this study offers some imperative policy recommendations to both donor countries and ODA recipients.
African economies depend largely on agriculture. Most people in Africa spend most of their lives in rural areas. Agriculture is an important sector of African industry and economy, it employs more ...than half of the population and accounts more than half of the national income. Due to population increase the food security remains an issue. In accordance of the lack of domestic capacities of African countries to deal with the problem, it is particularly important to increase assistance from developed countries. African States are expected to demonstrate the ability to implement policies that will change with the funds received / while receiving funds. However, for various reasons, despite numerous aid packages, it/Africa remains backward. This article examines the impact of foreign aid on agricultural productivity and the impact of the quality of management on development aid flows. As examples, it was decided to take such countries as Ghana, Cameroon and Mali. The purpose of this article is to confirm the hypothesis that development assistance correlates positively with the productivity of agriculture. The second hypothesis suggests that development aid flows respond to the quality of public administration. As for the results, the impact between the variables was recorded, but the results were ambiguous.
본 연구는 한국의 기타공적자금(OOF) 배분에 영향을 미치는 요인들을 실증적으로 분석하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 국제사회가 지속가능발전 목표 달성을 위하여 다양한 형태의 개발재원에 관하여 논의하고 있는 가운데, OOF는 ODA와 함께 공적 재원으로서 중요한 역할을 할 것으로 기대된다. 그러나 기존의 개발재원에 관한 연구는 ODA에 크게 편중되어 있으며, ...특히 한국은 OOF비중이 높은 공여국임에도 불구하고 무엇이 한국의 OOF 배분에 영향을 미치는가에 대한 연구는 부재한다. 이러한 맥락에서 본 연구는 한국의 OOF 배분 결정요인을 경제적 요인과 비경제적 요인을 통해 통합적으로 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 한국의 OOF 배분에는 경제적 요인뿐만 아니라 정치적 요인과 FDI 결정요인에 활용되는 변수들이 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 한국의 공적 재원 중 중요한 부분을 차지하는 OOF에 대한 실증적 분석을 수행하여 다양한 개발재원 및 그 확대에 대한 논의에 기여하였다는 점에서 이론적·실천적 함의가 있다.
This study aims to empirically examine what affects allocation of South Korea’s other official flows(OOF). While most of previous works on development finance focus on official development assistance(ODA) and its allocation, there have been few studies on the determinants of OOF allocation despite its important role, along with ODA, as official support in international development cooperation. In this regard, this study empirically analyzes the determinants of South Korea’s OOF allocation by taking seriously both economic and non-economic factors. The results show that economic as well as other factors―political ones and those closely related to attract FDI―have statistically significant relationship with OOF allocation. This study positively contributes to the existing literature on development finance by empirically testing what determines allocation of South Korea’s OOF which accounts for an important share in Korea’s official flows to developing countries.
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