Does aid improve democracy and governance? A meta-regression analysis

The paper provides a systematic and quantitative review of the empirical evidence on the effects of development aid on democracy and governance. We find that aid has had, on average, a zero or negative effect on democracy, except that it has had a positive effect on democratization in European trans...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Public choice 2013-12, Vol.157 (3/4), p.601-628
Main Authors: Askarov, Zohid, Doucouliagos, Hristos
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cold War
Correlations
Corruption
Countries
Democracy
Democratization
Developing countries
Development aid
Econometrics
Economic development
Economic growth
Economic models
Economic statistics
Economic theory
Economics
Economics and Finance
Europe
Foreign aid
Freedom
Governance
Government
Government corruption
Human capital
Institutions
Keywords
LDCs
Political economy
Political Science
Polities
Post-Cold War
Public Finance
Quantitative analysis
Regression analysis
Rule of law
Selection bias
Statistical significance
Studies
Transition economies
War
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The paper provides a systematic and quantitative review of the empirical evidence on the effects of development aid on democracy and governance. We find that aid has had, on average, a zero or negative effect on democracy, except that it has had a positive effect on democratization in European transitional economies. Aid had a positive effect on governance during the Cold War period but has had no effect on governance in the post-Cold War period.
ISSN:0048-5829
1573-7101
DOI:10.1007/s11127-013-0081-y