A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness: Correlated Impacts on Health, Wealth, Fertility and Education

David Fielding, Mark McGillivray and Sebastián Torres Ledezma

No RP2006-23, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In this paper we discuss the results of research into the impact of foreign aid on human development. Rather than focusing on per capita income, as is common in the existing literature, we look at how aid impacts on a range of human development indicators, including measures, of health, education and fertility, and allow for the fact that these different dimensions of wellbeing are likely to interact with each other. Overall, aid is found to have a substantial positive impact on many development outcomes.

Keywords: Economic assistance and foreign aid; Education; Human fertility; Health; Wealth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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