Browsing by Author "Quesada González, Carlos"

This article analyses whether Official Development Assistance (ODA) is linked to multidimensional poverty indicators in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sustainable Development Indictors and the principles stated by the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation. Focused on three western Sub-Saharan Africa and least developing countries such as Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, this article uses Error Correction Vector Model to estimate if ODA and economic growth are cointegrated and a sectoral and spatial analysis to check if ODA are linked to Multidimensional Poverty Indicators in the sample countries. Despite the 2014 Ebola outbreak, the three countries have achieved noticeable good results in poverty alleviation. Results shows a certain macro-micro paradox because, despite a common trend between aid and growth identified at the macro level, we cannot find any sign of ODA contributions to the multidimensional poverty indicators when the micro level analysis is carried out. Our results may serve to increase the level of implementation of the ownership principle for effective development co-operation and achieve a significant improvement of several goals and targets included on the 2030 Agenda.

The paper deals with the effects of foreign aid on the changes in the Multidimensional Poverty Index over time. The goal is to group data on foreign aid (considered under a variety of measures and instruments), the MPI and changes on their headcount and their intensity components, and public expenditure on education and health, for a sample of 60 observations (50 countries) and the period 1999-2014. As information is only available as a crosscountry section, the methodology used is a three steps cluster and discriminant analysis. In the first step, the cluster was carried out with six different sectorial foreign aid, closely linked to the ten MPI indicators. In a second step, the clusters were performed among the changes in the ten MPI indicators. In the third step, aid, MPI indicators and public expenditures on education and health were considered. The main results are three groups of countries in each step. Only few countries remain always in the same group. Although there is a remarkable heterogeneity across countries and groups among the aid types allocated on them, all countries belonging to the second group received a significant amount of aid.