Testing the Foreign Aid-led Growth Hypothesis in West Africa

Yakama Manty Jones
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Yakama Manty Jones: Department of Management, Birkbeck College University of London

No 3, Management Working Papers from Birkbeck Department of Management

Abstract: This paper assesses the foreign aid-led growth hypothesis in a panel of West African countries using panel cointegration techniques ( Pendroni Residual Cointegration Test, Error Correction Model, Johansen Fisher Panel Cointegration Test) and then on a country-by-country basis using time series cointegration techniques (Engle-Granger test, Error Correction Model , Johansen system cointegration test). The panel cointegration results indicate a long run relationship between aid and growth in the whole panel. For the individual countries, at least one test showed evidence of this long run relationship. Granger causality tests were done for the whole panel and then for each country individually to establish direction of causality between foreign aid and economic growth. There is evidence of unidirectional causality from foreign aid to economic growth, from economic growth to foreign aid and there are cases where both variables are independent. A simplified variation of the Chenery and Strout Two-Gap Model was estimated to test the impact of foreign aid and selected explanatory variables on economic growth in countries where aid was found to granger cause growth and this impact varied from country to country.

Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2013-04, Revised 2013-04
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Published on Birkbeck Department of Management web site, April 2013, pages 1-34

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