Does Foreign Aid In Education Promote Economic Growth? Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa

By E. Asiedu. Journal of African Development, 2014

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This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our analysis covers 38 countries over the period 1990–2004 and we control for initial per capita income, inflation, investment, government consumption, openness to trade and institutional quality. We find that (i) aid in primary education has a positive and significant effect on growth; (ii) aid in post-primary education has an adverse effect or at best no significant impact on growth; and (iii) growth increases as aid in primary education as a share of total education aid rises.

Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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Inequality, ICT and financial access in Africa (2019, unknown): “…education, primary education has been documented to positively affect development externalities in countries at initial stages of industrialisation (Asiedu, 2014), the overall outcome may be contingent on a number of factors, such as: the education quality in a country and importance of primary…”
Education, lifelong learning, inequality and financial access: evidence from African countries (2020, result): “First, the fact that compared to other levels of education, primary education provides enabling conditions for more positive income redistribution is consistent with the literature (see Petrakis & Stamatakis, 2002; Asiedu, 2014) on the comparative advantage of primary education in social returns whe”
Environmental degradation and inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa (2018, unknown): “The quality of primary school enrolment is anticipated to positively affect the outcome variable because relative to other forms of education, social returns from primary education are higher when countries are at a tender stage of industrialisation (Asiedu, 2014; Petrakis & Stamakis, 2002).”
The Role of ICT in Modulating the Effect of Education and Lifelong Learning on Income Inequality and Economic Growth in Africa (2019, result): “This is in accordance with the literature (see Petrakis & Stamatakis, 2002; Asiedu, 2014; Tchamyou, 2019a) which has shown that primary education has a comparative advantage in terms of social returns in the context of less industrialised economies.”
Enhancing governance for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa (2020, unknown): “These studies include Asiedu (2014); Asongu and Odhiambo (2019b); and Petrakis and Stamatakis (2002).”
The Mobile Phone in the Diffusion of Knowledge for Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016, unknown): “In essence, Petrakis and Stamatakis (2002) and Asiedu (2014) have argued that, compared to other levels of education, the underlying form of education is linked to higher social returns in undeveloped/developing countries.”
Educational quality thresholds in the diffusion of knowledge with mobile phones for inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa (2018, unknown): “‘student-teacher ratio’ in secondary or tertiary education), (ii) Relative to other educational levels, primary education has been shown to be more interconnected with positive externalities in economic development at the initial levels of industrialisation (see Stamatakis, 2002; Asiedu, 2014).”
Foreign Aid and Inclusive Development: Updated Evidence from Africa, 2005-2012 (2017, unknown): “In accordance with Asongu and De Moor (2016), the study uses four information criteria to assess the validity of estimated models.”