AID SELECTIVITY PRACTICE AND AID EFFECTIVENESS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Effective Aid for Small Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Aid and Savings in Sub-saharan Africa: Should We Worry about Rising Aid Levels?

This paper examines the effect of aid on domestic savings in Sub-Saharan Africa. It departs from the previous literature on aid and savings in developing countries by abandoning the pervasive, but untenable, assumption that all aid is used to expand the trade deficit and thus applied wholly to consumption or investment. In fact, for the period 1965-2006, the evidence suggests that 35% of any in...

Aid effectiveness in sub-saharan Africa and south and southeast Asia : an analysis of substantive measures of development

Recently, aid effectiveness has become a popular topic in the literature. Generally, it is measured by instrumental measures of well-being, specifically, GDP per capita. This paper uses a substantive approach, pioneered by Amartya Sen, to evaluate aid effectiveness. Substantive measures attempt to measure welfare directly. Specifically, I use infrastructure as measured by telephone lines per 10...

United States aid policy and induced abortion in sub-Saharan Africa.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the Mexico City Policy, a United States government policy that prohibits funding to nongovernmental organizations performing or promoting abortion, was associated with the induced abortion rate in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS Women in 20 African countries who had induced abortions between 1994 and 2008 were identified in Demographic and Health Surveys. A country'...

Aid Effectiveness in Africa: the Unfinished Agenda

Africa is the world’s most aided major region. Yet economic growth has been disappointingly low there. A number of factors explain the poor outcomes and limited sustainability of and in Africa. But the organisation and management of the aid relationship is a particularly important one, including the dependence of Africans on that aid. The currently popular nostrums for solving the problem of th...