Does Foreign Aid Improve Gender Performance in Recipient Countries?

Ranjula Bali Swain and Supriya Garikipati

No 201811, Working Papers from University of Liverpool, Department of Economics

Abstract: An explicit goal of foreign aid is to promote female empowerment and gender equality in developing countries. The impact of foreign aid on these latent variables at the country level is not yet known because of various methodological impediments. We address these by using Structural Equation Models. We use data from the World Development Indicators, the World Governance Indicators and the OECDs Credit Reporting System to investigate if foreign aid has an impact on gender performance of recipient countries at the country level. Our results suggest that to observe improvement in gender performance at the macro-level, foreign aid must target the gender outcomes of interest in a clearly measurable ways.

Keywords: foreign aid; gender performance; structural equation model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 J16 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2018-12
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