Foreign Aid, Fertility and Population Growth:Evidence from Africa

Leonid Azarnert

No 2009-12, Working Papers from Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This article investigates the relationship between foreign aid and population growth in sub-Saharan Africa. The work considers population growth rate and a directly related to fertility demographic indicator – total fertility rate. Using a panel of 43 African countries over the last four decades of the 20th century, it demonstrates the positive association between foreign aid and population growth and suggests that foreign aid affects population growth primarily through its effect on fertility. These findings suggest that the appreciation of the demographic effect of foreign aid can have important implications for the design of policies regarding to foreign aid for presently developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

Keywords: Foreign aid; Fertility; Population growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 J11 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-04
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