The global partnership for sustainable development

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This paper examines whether foreign aid, together with other economic, social and environmental factors, contributes to sustainable development. It starts with a theoretical model where sustainable development is modelled as a different kind of growth that protects the environment. Using factor analysis and newly developed estimation methods for a dynamic panel data model with endogenous regressors, the empirical section finds evidence that foreign aid has been a significantly positive influence on sustainable development in aid recipient countries. This effect is very likely to go through channels related to growth and resources as well as a technology channel with respect to energy intensity. This research has important implications for a post-2015 development framework on international collective action with regard to a sustainable future.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-634-2
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2013/057

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Development: General ; Environment and Growth ; Health, Education, and Welfare: General ; Foreign Aid ; Economic Impacts of Globalization: General
• Subject: sustainable development ; aid effectiveness ; post-2015 development agenda ; economic growth ; natural resource exploitations ; energy intensity ; factor-IV ; factor-GMM ; Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; Entwicklungshilfe

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Huang, Yongfu ; Quibria, M. G.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/81001
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET