ON EXTERNAL AID EFFECTIVENESS AND SCHOOL ENROLMENT: A STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
ON EXTERNAL AID EFFECTIVENESS AND SCHOOL ENROLMENT: A STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Author(s): Aderopo Raphael Adediyan, Venus Nmakanmma ObadoniContributor(s): Philip Raphael (Translator)
Subject(s): School education, State/Government and Education, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: External aid; education; school enrolment; HIV/AIDS; malaria;
Summary/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.
Journal: Olsztyn Economic Journal
- Issue Year: 15/2020
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 301-312
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English