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Aid Effectiveness: Human Rights as a Conditionality Measure

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  • Mustapha Douch

    (Bank of Lithuania and The University of Edinburgh)

  • Huw Edwards

    (Loughborough University)

  • Todd Landman

    (University of Nottingham)

  • Sushanta Mallick

    (Queen Mary University of London)

Abstract

The ‘aid conditionality’ hypoth augmenting that its esis as advocated in the literature suggests that aid is effective in growth only in the presence of a sound policy environment. This hypothesis was so influential policy recommendation, to provide aid conditional upon recipient domesti c policies, is currently the dominant ODA allocation criterion. However noneconomic dimensions of development (political and institutional) are increasingly seen as fundamental. For this reason, this paper focuses on the linkage between aid and a nonecono mic measure of aid effectiveness, in factor like Human Rights (reflecting repression and corruption) as a explaining growth outcomes across 42 Least Developed economies. We find that countries with better human rights experience positive growth from aid re role of strong institutions and good governance ceipts, signifying the in enabling more effective use of aid. The paper thus concludes that the measurement and monitoring likely effectiveness of foreign aid.

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  • Mustapha Douch & Huw Edwards & Todd Landman & Sushanta Mallick, 2022. "Aid Effectiveness: Human Rights as a Conditionality Measure," Bank of Lithuania Working Paper Series 104, Bank of Lithuania.
    • Handle: RePEc:lie:wpaper:104
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    9. Dasandi, Niheer & Erez, Lior, 2023. "The flag and the stick: Aid suspensions, human rights, and the problem of the complicit public," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).

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    Keywords

    Human rights; aid effectiveness; corruption; oligarchy;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
    • P40 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - General
    • O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations

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