Foreign Aid Case Study

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Official Development Assistance started in 1943 with the aim of reconstruction the war-scarred economy of Western-Europe. Later on, foreign aid becomes an important issue to solve the social and economic problems of developing countries. Furthermore, foreign aid is widely expected to help the capacity building, technology, investment, and infrastructure development, particularly for poor countries. Therefore, many researchers have widely discussed the effectiveness of foreign aid over many years. The current study attempts to point out the importance of policy to manage the aid effectively. There are two objectives of this study. First is to evaluate the impact of foreign aid on the decision of economic growth in developing countries. Another…show more content…
Morrissey (2001) argued that aid can promote not only investment but also capacity building by increasing imported capital goods and transfer technology from developed countries to developing countries. On the other hand, Boone (1996) inferred that foreign aid increases neither investment nor growth, but it does increase consumption that is far from the effectiveness of aid on growth. From a policy perspective, Collier and Dollar (2002) found that the economic growth of recipient countries depends on the policy regimes of the countries. On the other hand, Burnside and Dollar (2000) suggested that aid does work in countries with good fiscal, monetary, and trade policy. Therefore, the previous findings show that aid has the negative effect, positive effect, and no effect on…show more content…
By using the results of the first regression, I construct the policy index by combining the coefficients of investment, trade openness and inflation. Moreover, I construct the economic environment index by using the first regression results of the governance indicators. In the previous studies of Gomanee, Girma and Morrisey (2002), Ekanayake and Chatrna (2010), and Morrisey (2002), they found that the effectiveness of aid depends on the macroeconomic policy of recipient countries. If one country does not implement the good fiscal policy, monetary policy, and trade policy, it will fail in aid effectiveness. When the recipient countries have good policy, they will use the aid for investing in new technology, capital, and education that can increase the productive capacity and labor productivity. However, foreign aid can raise the consumption level if recipient countries have the bad policy. If consumption is high, the price of commodities will also high. It can cause inflation and higher interest rate which will decrease the investment. On the other hand, recipient countries with good macroeconomic policy enforce the investment directly, through the government spending (Gomanee et. al., 2002). Macroeconomic

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