TY - JOUR AU - Adediyan, Aderopo Raphael AU - Obadoni, Venus Nmakanmma PY - 2020/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - On External Aid Effectiveness and School Enrolment: A Study on Sub-Saharan Africa JF - Olsztyn Economic Journal JA - oej VL - 15 IS - 4 SE - Artículos DO - 10.31648/oej.6853 UR - https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/oej/article/view/6853 SP - 301-311 AB - <p>This paper re-evaluates the external aid effectiveness on school enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa and provides a piece of evidence on the relationship conditioned on the prevalence of malaria and HIV/AIDS. A panel dataset from 2010 to 2019 for 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa was modelled and analyzed using a dynamic panel GMM technique. The results suggest a statistically significant positive effect of external aid on school enrolment – primary, secondary and tertiary school enrolment. However, when correlated with the HIV/AIDS and malaria diseases, the relationship turned insignificant and at best negative. That is, in the case where malaria and HIV/AIDS diseases are evident, external aid does not have a statistically significant positive impact on school enrolment. It therefore means that the level of aid effectiveness on school enrolment is contingent on malaria and HIV/AIDS diseases in the region. Hence, although the attraction of more external aid can increase school enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa, it will be effective only if the HIV/AIDS and malaria diseases are eradicated.</p> ER -