WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/004 Aid as a catalyst for pioneer investment

WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/103 Foreign aid and mobilization of growth factors in sub-Saharan Africa

This study addresses the macroeconomic effect of foreign aid on the factors of growth. Specifically, we examine the effects of foreign aid on capital investment (human capital, physical capital) in sub-Saharan Africa. Our methodological approach evaluates the effect of disaggregate aid (aid for infrastructure and aid for education) on capital investment. To test our postulate, we make use of pa...

WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/048 Foreign aid, green cities and buildings

WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/094 Foreign aid, public sector and private consumption: A cointegrated vector autoregressive approach

This paper employs a cointegrated vector autoregressive model to assess the growth effect of aid in Uganda over the period 1972-2008. Results show that aid in Uganda has had both direct and indirect beneficial association with growth; that it is the productivity and not the stead state level of investment that contributes to achieving target growth rates; and that consumption spending is more b...

WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/075 The progressivity and regressivity of aid to the social sectors

This paper analyses the distribution of total aid and aid to the social sectors between 2009 and 2011. Its key findings are four-fold. First, despite the stated objectives of donors, total aid disbursements are broadly neutral, favouring neither the most deprived nor relatively well-off countries. Second, the pattern of social sector aid disbursements follows those for total aid. Third, the aid...

WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/057 The global partnership for sustainable development

This paper examines whether foreign aid, together with other economic, social and environmental factors, contributes to sustainable development. It starts with a theoretical model where sustainable development is modelled as a different kind of growth that protects the environment. Using factor analysis and newly developed estimation methods for a dynamic panel data model with endogenous regres...