Assessing the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in the Education Sector in Africa: The Case of Primary Education

Yogo, Thierry

doi:10.1111/1467-8268.12276

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“…1 percent increase in ODA and technical cooperation grants increases public investment in education by 4.289 percent and 0.829 percent respectively. This result is in conjunction with the findings of Mohamed & Mzee (2017) and Yogo (2017) that foreign aid is helpful in improving educational outcome. The probability value (0.000) of the f-statistic indicates that explanatory variables collectively important in forecasting changes in public investment in education.…”

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Exploring the Nexus Between Foreign Aid and Human Capital Development in Nigeria

2019

JESD

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This paper utilizes country-specific time series data over the period 1990-2017 and Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) model to estimate the relationship between and human capital development in Nigeria. The specific objectives focused on the impacts of official development assistance (ODA), broad-based grants and technical cooperation grants on public investments in education and healthcare. The Phillips-Perron unit root test results reveal that the variables are mixed integrated with evidence of levels and first difference stationarity. The mixed order of the integration in the series necessitated the application of ARDL bounds test for cointegration and the results indicate that the variables in each of the models have long run relationship. Findings from the estimated ARDL models reveal that lagged values ODA exert significant positive impact on public investment in education in the short run. Both the first and third lag of broad-based grant has significant negative relationship with public investment in education in the short run. The long run result revealed that ODA and technical cooperation grants have significant positive relationship with public investment in education. 1 percent increase in ODA and technical cooperation grants increases public investment in education by 4.289 percent and 0.829 percent respectively. It was further observed that the contemporaneous value of ODA has positive relationship with public healthcare investment in the short run. 1 percent increase in ODA inflow increases public healthcare investment by 1.099 percent. Additionally, there is more than proportionate increase in public investment in healthcare to the tune of 3.179 percent following 1 percent increase in ODA in the long run. Therefore, it is recommended among others that policy makers and donor countries/agencies should prioritize the education sector in the disbursement of foreign aid with a view to achieving the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) which is to ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning.Following the underlying economic theory on aid-development relationship, the a priori expectations are of the form: 1  > 0, 2  > 0, 3  > 0, 4  > 0, θ1 > 0, θ2 > 0, θ3 > 0 and θ4 > 0. Results and Discussion 4.1 Unit Root Test ResultsThe empirical results of the unit root test conducted at 5 percent level of significance using Phillips and Perron (1988) method are showed in Table 1.

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2019

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“…have been inconsistent (Michaelowa and Weber 2007;Richards and Vining 2015;Dreher et al 2008). An area where evidence is more mixed is the financing of education including domestic expenditures and foreign aid for education (Michaelowa and Weber 2007;Yogo 2017;d' Aiglepierre and Wagner 2013;Ruff 2016;Bruns et al 2003;Dreher et al 2008). In the studies where these measures are found to be significant, the effects are small which may be explained by the mediating role of governance; the impact is likely to be shaped by a nation's ability to spend dollars well and effectively.…”

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Is free pre-primary education associated with increased primary school completion? A global study

Earle

Milovantseva

Heymann

2018

ICEP

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The world has made substantial progress in increasing primary education enrollment rates, particularly among girls, following a series of global commitments to increase access to primary education including the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child, Art. 28 (1989), UN Millennium Development Goal 2 (2000), and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Education for All goals (UNESCO 1990, 2010). The greatest overall increase was among lowincome countries where primary school net enrollment rates increased from 54% in 2000 to an estimated 85% in 2015, and the female-male ratio from 0.85 to 0.94 (UNE-SCO IS 2017a). In eleven countries in sub-Saharan Africa, primary enrollment rates rose at least 20 percentage points from 1999 to 2012 (UNESCO 2015).

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“…In the context of some developing countries, political reforms, influx of foreign aid and foreign direct investments are bringing unprecedented opportunities for growth, employment, education and improvement in public health indices 34–38. At the same time, significant challenges remain in an effort to sustain the growth trajectories, reduce the prevalence of extreme poverty, and cut child stunting and mortality rates.…”

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Does economic growth reduce childhood stunting? A multicountry analysis of 89 Demographic and Health Surveys in sub-Saharan Africa

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BackgroundThere is mixed evidence and lack of consensus on the impact of economic development on stunting, and likewise there is a dearth of empirical studies on this relationship in the case of sub-Saharan Africa. Thus, this paper examines whether economic growth is associated with childhood stunting in low-income and middle-income sub-Saharan African countries.MethodsWe analysed data from 89 Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 1987 and 2016 available as of October 2018 using multivariable multilevel logistic regression models to show the association between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and stunting. We adjusted the models for child’s age, survey year, child’s sex, birth order and country random effect, and presented adjusted and unadjusted ORs.ResultsWe included data from 490 526 children. We found that the prevalence of stunting decreased with increasing GDP per capita (correlation coefficient=−0.606, p<0.0001). In the unadjusted model for full sample, for every US$1000 increase in GDP per capita, the odds of stunting decreased by 23% (OR=0.77, 95% CI 0.76 to 0.78). The magnitude of the association between GDP per capita and stunting was stronger among children in the richest quintile. After adjustment was made, the association was not significant among children from the poorest quintile. However, the magnitude of the association was more pronounced among children from low-income countries, such that, in the model adjusted for child’s age, survey year, child’s sex, birth order and country random effect, the association between GDP per capita and stunting remained statistically significant; for every US$1000 increase in GDP per capita, the odds of stunting decreased by 12% (OR=0.88, 95% CI 0.87 to 0.90).ConclusionThere was no significant association between economic growth and child nutritional status. The prevalence of stunting decreased with increasing GDP per capita. This was more pronounced among children from the richest quintile. The magnitude of the association was higher among children from low-income countries, suggesting that households in the poorest quintile were typically the least likely to benefit from economic gains. The findings could serve as a building block needed to modify current policy as per child nutrition-related programmes in Africa.

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in the Education Sector in Africa: The Case of Primary Education

Cited by 24 publications

References 27 publications

Exploring the Nexus Between Foreign Aid and Human Capital Development in Nigeria

Exploring the Nexus Between Foreign Aid and Human Capital Development in Nigeria

Is free pre-primary education associated with increased primary school completion? A global study

Does economic growth reduce childhood stunting? A multicountry analysis of 89 Demographic and Health Surveys in sub-Saharan Africa

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