Remittances, Foreign Aid and Private Consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A System GMM Estimation

Of all the policy issue areas that concern the U.S. government in its relations with Africa, economic assistance policy has attracted the deepest and widest involvement from U.S. university scholars. University-based analysts have enjoyed numerous avenues of access to officials who define, design, implement and evaluate U.S. foreign aid programs for sub-Saharan Africa. U.S. universities have stronger institutional linkages with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) than with any other Washington institution discussed in this ISSUE, including the U.S. Congress and agencies within the the national security bureaucracy.

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The Theology of Emergency: Welfare Reform, US Foreign Aid and the Faith-Based Initiative

Theory Culture & Society ◽

10.1177/0263276413508448 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 53-77 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Melinda Cooper

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Foreign Aid ◽

Service Providers ◽

The United States ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Emergency Relief ◽

Faith Based ◽

Social Authority ◽

Sub Saharan

This article addresses the rise of faith-based emergency relief by examining the US President’s Emergency Plan for HIV/AIDS (PEPFAR), a public health intervention focused on the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that the theological turn in humanitarian aid serves to amplify ongoing dynamics in the domestic politics of sub-Saharan African states, where social services have assumed the form of chronic emergency relief and religious organizations have come to play an increasingly prominent role in the provision of such services. In the context of an ongoing public health crisis, PEPFAR has institutionalized the social authority of the Pentecostal and charismatic churches, leading to a semantic confluence between the postcolonial politics of emergency and the Pentecostal/Pauline theology of kairos or event. Far from being confined to the space of foreign aid, however, the faith-based turn in humanitarianism is in keeping with ongoing reforms in domestic social policy in the United States. While on the one hand the sustained welfare programmes of the New Deal and Great Society have been dismantled in favour of a system of emergency relief, on the other hand the federal government has intensified its moral, pedagogical and punitive interventions into the lives of the poor. The wilful transfer of welfare services to overtly religious service providers has played a decisive role in this process. The article concludes with a critical appraisal of the links between African and North American Pentecostal-evangelical churches and questions the revolutionary mission ascribed to Pauline political theology in recent political theory.

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MICROFINANCE, FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT, FOREIGN AID, AND INCOME INEQUALITY: EVIDENCE FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues ◽

10.32479/ijefi.11277 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 35-44

Author(s):

Mongi Lassoued

Keyword(s):

Income Inequality ◽

Foreign Aid ◽

Financial Development ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Sub Saharan

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Government spending and school enrolment in sub-Saharan Africa: A system GMM approach

Journal of Economics and Management ◽

10.22367/jem.2020.40.05 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 40 ◽

pp. 91-108

Author(s):

Isiaq Olasunkanmi Oseni ◽

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Daniel Akinola Babalola ◽

Sakiru Oladele Akinbode ◽

Soliu Bidemi Adegboyega ◽

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Keyword(s):

Government Spending ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

School Enrolment ◽

System Gmm ◽

Sub Saharan

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