Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of Aid for Trade in Sub-Saharan African countries. This study examines the nature of the link between Aid for Trade on both exports and imports of Sub-Saharan African countries with OECD countries over the period 2005 to 2017. From the estimation of the two respective gravity models by the Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood method, it emerges that aid for trade negatively affects the export flows and positively affects the import flows of Sub-Saharan African countries in the trade relationship with OECD countries. Aid for trade is therefore ineffective because it contributes to maintaining a trade deficit for sub-Saharan African countries. It is therefore recommended that development partners focus aid for trade on the recipient countries’ import substitution strategy.
Source: Theoretical Economics Letters
Author: Guy Paulin Dazoue Dongue
Institution: University of Maroua
Language: English
Subfield: Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406210465