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Technical cooperation and sub-Saharan Africa’s development dilemma
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Title:
Technical cooperation and sub-Saharan Africa’s development dilemma
Author:
Siyanbola, Adedamola Akeem
Subjects:
Developing countries
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sub-Saharan Africa
;
Technical cooperation
Description:
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, 2022 It has been established by Chenery and Strout (1966) that developing countries do not have sufficient capital that can bring about their much-needed growth and development. In addition to foreign investment (in terms of foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign portfolio investment), foreign aid has in recent times become a much sought after method of augmenting their stock of capital. This thesis examines the impact of technical cooperation (TC), a subset of foreign aid on the development dilemma that plays out in Sub-Saharan Africa. We chose TC because of its direct impact on development, particularly human development. This thesis employs a three essay method to achieve its objective. Chapter one and chapter five give the introduction and conclusion of the thesis respectively. The middle chapters examine the impact of technical cooperation on development in the region with the assistance of three interlinked essays. The first examines the role of technical cooperation in the development of human capacities in Sub-Saharan Africa while the second essay looks at the impact of technical cooperation on educational development in the region. The third essay focuses on the role of technical cooperation on health outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The objective of the first essay is to examine the role of TC in the development of human capacities through the use of the Human Development Index (HDI) of the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP). It further examines whether the impact is predicated on good policy and institutional quality and whether productivity is the transmission mechanism for TC to human development in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Kripfganz (2017) variant of the generalized method of moment (GMM), which permits both linear and non-linear moment conditions and the two-stage sequential regression with analytical second-stage standard error correction of Kripfganz and Schwarz (2015) to analyse our data. Our results show that TC significantly influences human development in SubSaharan Africa (SSA). It also enhances policy formulation, coordination, evaluation, and 6 institutional quality which leads to improved human development. The study also indicates that improvement in productivity is a veritable transmission channel through which TC is routed to human development. The second paper (Chapter three) examines the effectiveness of technical cooperation on educational outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study analyses panel data of Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1996 -2018 based on a dynamic autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique. The result suggests that technical cooperation and institutional quality have a significant negative effect on educational attainment while per capital income and gender inequality have a significant positive effect on educational attainment in SSA. In addition, it was found that the lag of educational attainment affects the current, indicating that there is a consistent relationship between the past periods of educational attainment and the present. The study recommends the need to reposition the institutional and policy environment in SSA countries by instituting a more serious and swift legal prosecution of corrupt cases especially those that have to do with foreign aid and grants for education The third essay (Chapter four) investigates the effect of technical cooperation on health outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Previous literature has either focused on SDG-related or non-SDG-related health targets but not both. This study estimates a pool of data from SubSaharan Africa from 1996 to 2018 via the dynamic panel Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) approach. The estimates of the static model suggest that technical cooperation flows to Sub-Saharan Africa translate to an increase in infant mortality rate and immunization. The result of the dynamic panel model finds that immunization is the only component among all the health targets that increase with technical cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, government health expenditure shows a significant effect on both the SDG and non-SDGrelated health targets tested in the study. It was shown to increase with increased life expectancy, health facilities, and infectious diseases and to decrease with infant mortality rate. The study emphasises the need to reposition technical cooperation to directly stimulate not only immunisation but also other SDG and non-SDG-related health targets. This may be through a prototype model used in the immunisation programme that engages the local government in the provision of house-to-house technical assistance in areas that can improve life expectancy, health facilities and reduce infant mortality rate and infectious diseases in SSA PC(2023)
Creation Date:
2022
Language:
English
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