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“Benefits of foreign aid have recently been under severe scrutiny. Several observers argue that a large portion of foreign aid flow from developed to developing countries is wasted and increases unproductive public consumption. Poor institutional development, corruption,

Prior to doing the readings for this week, I did not know very much at all about foreign developmental aid. I only ever figured that foreign developmental aid was money that we provided to developing nations to help soothe poverty. After reading these articles, however, I now know that the intended goal of developmental aid is to alleviate poverty in the long-term, rather than as a short-term response. I also saw developmental aid as purely humanitarian, and never paused to consider that consequences of such aid, nor the possibility of the aid failing.

This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of methodology used in this study: research design, study participants, data collection and instruments, reliability and validity, data analysis, ethical concerns, and study limitations, followed by a brief summary.

This chapter presented the research design for addressing the research questions guiding this study. This chapter detailed the design of the research. Research design, sampling process, data collection and analysis were the main aspects that were detailed. The study was conducted by making use of a questionnaire.

4.3. Figure D: It is stated in the article that aid has demonstrated to be have a positive impact on development and economical growth specifically when it is targeted towards a specific objective of the country. For example aid being used towards eradicating certain illnesses. Though, when aid is presented objectively and in large substantial amounts, the overall growth of the country appears to decline. Basically, they explain that aid only works to a certain extent, and there are other solutions that also need to be implemented. The scenario presented for this was Sub-Sahara Africa’s declining

There so much said and written about foreign aid that it has become difficult to justify its effectiveness. But if we look at the overall picture in the eye of citizens of a developing country, an honest assessment might conclude that progress has been made. Though, profound social disparities and extreme poverty are still lurking in some parts of this fragile planet.

There have been many studies taking place over foreign aid and sub-Saharan Africa since foreign aid initially began after World War 2. Many authors today have begun to ask the question, “Is Africa Different?” (Asiedu 2002). The Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) in the past decade has grown exponentially to 61 percent from the previous 24 percent in 1990. Africa, while seeing a significant increase in amount of investment, still has not seen anywhere near the level of investment that other

A study conducted by McGillivray demonstrates how aid to African countries not only increases growth but also reduces poverty. Furthermore, the author points out the important fact that continuously growing poverty, mainly in sub-Saharan African countries, compromises the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) main target of dropping the percentage of people living in extreme poverty to half the 1990 level by 2015. His research econometrically analyzes empirical, time series data for 1968-1999. The paper concludes that the policy regimes of each country, such as inflation and trade openness, influence the amounts of aid received. (McGillivray, 2006).

If any form of foreign aid is taken for self development, for creating market based systems, for job creation and for coming out of poverty, it is worth taking the aid. Many third world countries prospered through foreign aid and are now considered as developing nations of the world. Some of them include Egypt, Israel, Taiwan, Malaysia, Korea and India (Alesina & Dollar, 2002). However, the political system in Africa is often headed by leaders who are corrupt. This has forced many African nations to endlessly depend on foreign

The proposed research is based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Qualitative research involves iterative, logical and exploratory process that gathers the views of participants with the objective of analysing the facts that relate to the study. On the other hand quantitative methods comprise of deductive ways of studying the data collected (Bryman, 2004 cited in Heath and Tyna, 2010; pg 10).

As cited by Anaf and Sheppard (2007), Key in 1997 suggested the theory and meaning, qualitative and quantitative methodologies are distinct. A qualitative methodology’s focus of research is in its nature and essence. The goal of investigation of qualitative methodology is understanding, description and discovery. It usually involves small, non-random, and theoretical population. Data collection takes into account researcher as the primary instrument, and sometimes involve interviews and observations. The mode analysis of qualitative method is inductive which leads to findings that are comprehensive and holistic.

In recent years, Ghana’s economy has suffered from other infrastructure project failures, along with poor fiscal policies that have placed the government into deep debt and caused extensive depreciation of their currency. Other economic issues that Ghana faces due to large amounts of foreign aid are inflation and Dutch disease. Their Central Bank has been unable to efficiently regulate the flow for aid to the country, which results in uncontrolled inflation. Dutch disease has been an issue for them due to the market for oil that began expanding in 2010. Their poor infrastructure and the struggle to provide clean water are also constraints that limit how successful Ghana can be without some developmental assistance (CEPA, 2010). Ghana is now one of the sub-Saharan African countries that receives the most developmental assistance and foreign aid, a stark contrast to the hopeful outlook that their country began with.

We live in a world in which the 85 richest people own the wealth of half of the world's population (Oxfam, 2014). Yet, there have been numerous Western-driven attempts to bring such a gap, aid being one of the most prominent ones. Indeed, as Moyo (2010, p. 12) suggests, there seems to be an uncompromising sentiment of moral obligation lying behind the aid system, which purpose is to improve the living standards of the world’s poorest and ultimately erradicate poverty (Barder, 2011, p. 7). Today aid, often regarded as the manifestation of a particular historical context (Sriskandarajah, 2014), plays a fundamental role in influencing the social and economic outcome of many developing countries (van de Walle, 1999, p. 338). Such an influence

A qualitative research approach, supplement with a questionnaire survey was predominantly adopted for the purpose of this research. Qualitative research was mainly used because it helps to explore, explain and

Dollar, D and Kraay, A; (2001), Trade, Growth and Poverty, Finance and Development, Volume 38, Number 3. Available on: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2001/09/dollar.htm Accessed on: 11 July 2001.