ON EXTERNAL AID EFFECTIVENESS AND SCHOOL ENROLMENT: A STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Aderopo Raphael Adediyan () and Venus Nmakanmma Obadoni ()
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Aderopo Raphael Adediyan: Department of Economics, University of Benin, Edo State, Nigeria
Venus Nmakanmma Obadoni: Department of Economics, University of Benin, Edo State, Nigeria

OLSZTYN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 2020, vol. 15, issue 4, 301-311

Abstract: This paper re-evaluates the external aid effectiveness on school enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa and provides a piece of evidence on the relationship conditioned on the prevalence of malaria and HIV/AIDS. A panel dataset from 2010 to 2019 for 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa was modelled and analyzed using a dynamic panel GMM technique. The results suggest a statistically significant positive effect of external aid on school enrolment – primary, secondary and tertiary school enrolment. However, when correlated with the HIV/AIDS and malaria diseases, the relationship turned insignificant and at best negative. That is, in the case where malaria and HIV/AIDS diseases are evident, external aid does not have a statistically significant positive impact on school enrolment. It therefore means that the level of aid effectiveness on school enrolment is contingent on malaria and HIV/AIDS diseases in the region. Hence, although the attraction of more external aid can increase school enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa, it will be effective only if the HIV/AIDS and malaria diseases are eradicated.

Keywords: external aid; education; school enrolment; HIV/AIDS; malaria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 I10 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.31648/oej.6853

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