An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Foreign Aid: A Panel Approach

Abdiweli Ali and Hodan Isse

International Advances in Economic Research, 2006, vol. 12, issue 2, 250 pages

Abstract: This paper uses a panel approach to examine the determinants of foreign aid. It examines the extent to which taxes on international trade and the scope of government activities, ethnicity, private credit, and education determine foreign aid. The paper specifies and estimates a model that explains the allocation of foreign aid among 151 countries over the period 1975 to 1998. The key empirical finding suggests that Taxes on Trade increases foreign aid dependency. Moreover, trade, private credit, foreign direct investment, GDP per worker, and government consumption are important determinants of foreign aid. The factors that appear to decrease foreign aid include: Years of schooling, private credit, trade, and GDP per worker. The factors that appear to increase foreign aid include: Taxes on international trade, ethnicity, and government consumption. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006

Keywords: O11; O47; P51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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