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WORLD DEVELOPMENT
卷 158, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105978
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Human rights; aid effectiveness; Corruption; Oligarchy
The study focuses on the link between aid and human rights, exploring the effectiveness of aid in promoting economic growth. The findings indicate that countries with better protection of human rights experience positive growth from aid receipts, highlighting the crucial role of stronger institutions in aid utilization.
The 'aid conditionality' hypothesis as documented in the literature suggests that aid is effective in augmenting growth only in the presence of a sound policy environment. This hypothesis was so influential that its policy recommendation, to provide aid conditional upon recipient domestic policies, is currently the dominant ODA allocation criterion. However non-economic dimensions of development (political and institutional) are increasingly seen as fundamental. For this reason, this paper focuses on the linkage between aid and a non-economic factor like Human Rights (reflecting repression and corruption) as a measure of aid effectiveness, in explaining growth outcomes across 42 Least Developed economies. We find that countries with better protection of human rights experience positive growth from aid receipts, signifying the role of stronger institutions in enabling more effective use of aid. The paper thus concludes that the measurement and monitoring of human rights provision is a useful tool in gauging the likely effectiveness of foreign aid. (C) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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