The Impact of Development Aid on Human Development

<p>This dissertation examines the relationship between development aid and human development in recipient countries. The primary function of this research is to determine which types of aid are most effective in improving human development. To accomplish this goal, I use a fixed effects regression analysis to examine the following aid types in individual chapters of the dissertation: Total Aid, Donor-specific aid, Sectoral Aid, Conditional Aid, and aid flowing from Multilateral, Bilateral, and Private sources. This analysis produced mixed results, indicating that some types of aid have a positive and significant impact on human development, some have a negative and significant impact, and some have no impact. However, even when there is a statistically significant relationship between the two variables, the impact is so small that it is not substantively significant.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Political Science, PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Social Science, Politics, and Evaluation

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Shaffer, Lauren Candia

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sallama Shaker
• Yi Feng

• Aid
• Development aid
• Human development
• Poverty
• Recipient countries
• Economics
• International Relations
• Political Science

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/560

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1582