WIDER Working Paper 2015/094 Does foreign aid harm political institutions?

WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/074 The effectiveness of foreign aid to women’s equality organizations in the MENA: Does aid promote women’s political participation?

In this paper, we address the question of whether official development assistance promotes gender equality in the Middle East and North Africa region by examining the effects of aid to Women’s Equality Organizations and Institutions on women’s political empowerment, measured by the proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments. We use panel data (covering the period 2002-10) from 13...

WIDER Working Paper 2015/058 - Lessons for Japanese foreign aid from research on aid’s impact

WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/100 Foreign aid and sustainable fisheries management in sub-Saharan Africa

The fisheries sector in sub-Saharan Africa has benefitted from high and increasing amounts of foreign aid for over four decades. In the 1990s when evidence emerged that most stocks were overcapitalized and overfished, the effectiveness of fisheries development aid, particularly those directed at fishing capacity enhancement, came into question. This report examined the relationship between deve...

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. 2013/102 Foreign aid, resource rents and institution-building in Mozambique and Angola

Sharing similar colonial and post-independence civil war experiences, Mozambique and Angola’s development paths are often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil rentier Angola. This paper questions the so-called Mozambican miracle and contrasts it with Angola’s trajectory over the past two decades. Paying attention to the political trajectory of the r...