Date of Award
Spring 2023
Degree Type
Open Access Dissertation
Degree Name
Political Science, PhD
Program
School of Social Science, Politics, and Evaluation
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
Melissa Rogers
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Sallama Shaker
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Yi Feng
Terms of Use & License Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Rights Information
© 2023 Lauren C Shaffer
Keywords
Aid, Development aid, Human development, Poverty, Recipient countries
Subject Categories
Economics | International Relations | Political Science
Abstract
This dissertation examines the relationship between development aid and human development in recipient countries. The primary function of this research is to determine which types of aid are most effective in improving human development. To accomplish this goal, I use a fixed effects regression analysis to examine the following aid types in individual chapters of the dissertation: Total Aid, Donor-specific aid, Sectoral Aid, Conditional Aid, and aid flowing from Multilateral, Bilateral, and Private sources. This analysis produced mixed results, indicating that some types of aid have a positive and significant impact on human development, some have a negative and significant impact, and some have no impact. However, even when there is a statistically significant relationship between the two variables, the impact is so small that it is not substantively significant.
ISBN
9798380123129
Recommended Citation
Shaffer, Lauren Candia. (2023). The Impact of Development Aid on Human Development. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 560. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/560.
