Foreign Aid and Poverty level in West African Countries: New evidence using a heterogeneous panel analysis
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socioeconomicCréateur:
Olo
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This paper re-examines the effects of different types of foreign aid on poverty level in 8 West African countries between 1975 and 2010 by employing both the first and second generation econometrics methods of panel unit root test, cointegration test and empirical estimators with heterogeneous slopes. Our results suggest that total foreign aid and food aid impact positively on poverty, while technical aid reduces poverty. Apart from total foreign aid, none of the results was statistically significant. The results show negative relationship among poverty, life expectancy, foreign direct investment, per capita GDP and financial depth, but they were not statistically significant. This suggests that their impacts on poverty in West Africa were minimal.
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