TITLE:
How Effective Is the Official Development Assistance in the Education Sector? Evidence from the WAEMU Countries
AUTHORS:
Issouf Sangaré, Félix Fofana N’Zué
KEYWORDS:
Official Development Assistance, Education, School Performance
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.11,
November
30,
2023
ABSTRACT: This study aims to determine the impact of Official Development Assistance
on school performance within the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU).
Aid to education is disaggregated by education subsectors. We have seven (07) countries
and a time period of 20 years spanning from 2002
to 2021. We are therefore faced with a panel data setup with N = 7 and T = 20. The time series characteristics of the data which is made up of a mixture
of I(0) and I(1) variables, indicated that the appropriate model to use is a panel
ARDL. Thus, an ARDL model is to be estimated using the Pooled Mean Group method.
The results showed that, in the long run, ODA allocated to education in the WAEMU contributes to improving school performance
in the primary and secondary education sub-sectors; governance in the WAEMU has
a negative and significant impact on both the primary completion rate and the gross
enrollment rate in secondary education. The results also showed that in the short
run, governance has a negative impact on the gross enrollment rate in tertiary education.
Thus, African countries in general, and those in the WAEMU in particular, would
therefore benefit by improving the quality of their institutions, their education
system, by fighting corruption and creating a stable political environment free
of violence.