Foreign Aid, Instability, and Governance in Africa

Foreign Aid and Democratic Development in Africa

Over the past two decades, donors increasingly linked foreign aid to democracy objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet systematic research on this topic typically focuses on how aid influences democratic transitions. This study investigates whether and how foreign aid affects the process of democratic consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa by examining two potential mechanisms: (1) the use of aid as...

Foreign Aid, Political Instability, and Economic Growth

Relying on a simple endogenous growth model, this paper highlights a political instability effect as a potential explanation for why foreign aid is frequently ineffective with respect to economic performance. In the present framework, the role of the state is to fund institutions allowing for ongoing technology adoption and hence long-run growth. However, providing a self-interested government ...

17 Can Foreign Aid Save Africa ?

Foreign Aid and Democracy Promotion: Lessons from Africa

The disappointing results of international democratisation efforts are often attributed to domestic conditions that make it difficult for democracy to be established or survive. This paper recognises that the process is largely an endogenous one and that significant structural impediments exist. It argues that international actors, though for the most part absent from current theories of democr...

Food aid and governance

Arguing that food security management belongs to the core of government tasks and has been since Biblical times, we assess current practices in this domain and their effect on local governance, with special reference to the food aid operations of the World Food Program. Within the food security management task, we distinguish three basic elements: (i) entitlement: to provide income entitlements...