Aid, pro-poor government spending and welfare

Tools

Gomanee, Karuna, Morrissey, Oliver, Mosley, Paul and Verschoor, Arjan (2003) Aid, pro-poor government spending and welfare. Discussion Paper. Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT), University of Nottingham.

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Abstract

Our objective is to test the hypothesis that aid can improve the welfare of the poor. Part of this effect is direct, if aid is targeted on the poor, and part is indirect, via the transmission channel of aid-financed public spending on social services – sanitation, education and health. This indirect part is represented in an index of pro-poor public expenditures (PPE). As comparative data on poverty levels are scarce, we use two indicators of the welfare of the poor, namely infant mortality and the Human Development Index (HDI). We use a residual generated regressor to obtain a coefficient on the aid variable that includes the indirect effects through public expenditure allocation induced by aid. Estimation is based on a pooled panel of 39 countries over the period 1980 to 1998. We obtain results in support of our hypothesis that ‘pro-poor’ public expenditure is associated with increased levels of welfare, and we find evidence that aid is associated with improved values of the welfare indicators because aid finances pro-poor spending. In this way, aid potentially benefits the poor.

Item Type: Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Impact Evaluation
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences
Related URLs:
Depositing User: Abigail Dalgleish
Date Deposited: 13 Apr 2011 09:08
Last Modified: 20 Jun 2023 15:06
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/29164
DOI:

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item