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Official Development Assistance and Economic Growth in East African Countries

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dc.creator Robert, Suphian
dc.creator Sungsoo, Kim
dc.date 2018-03-22T06:52:05Z
dc.date 2018-03-22T06:52:05Z
dc.date 2017
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T12:36:47Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T12:36:47Z
dc.identifier Suphian, R. and Kim, S. (2017), Official Development Assistance and Economic Growth in East African Countries, The Journal of Peace Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 143-167
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4623
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4623
dc.description Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya have been receiving larger amount of official development assistance (ODA) compared to the rest of the East African Community countries. Therefore this study aims at assessing the impact of ODA on economic growth for to those three East African Community countries for the last 35 years from 1980-2014. The study employed the autoregressive distribution lag (ARDL) approach geared by Eviews9 application software for all estimations with the inclusion of other important independent variables like terms of trade, foreign direct investment, education and health. All countries’ ODA estimated results confirmed to have positive and significant effect on their economic growth. Just in the short run, ODA flowing to Kenya and Uganda proved to have a negative significant effect on the economic growth. However in the long run both countries’ ODA effects were positive. Tanzania had a significant positive effect for short and long run. In line with ODA, education and health found to have positive significant short and long run effects on the economic growth of East African countries. However in the previous years the human development factors were negatively affecting the growth, therefore the reverse suggested signs of improvements in the human development.
dc.language en
dc.publisher The Journal of Peace Studies, South Korea
dc.subject Economic growth, ODA, Terms of trade, FDI, Education, Health
dc.title Official Development Assistance and Economic Growth in East African Countries
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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