Assessing foreign aid, the case of foreign aid to the education sector

Farooq, Sohail (2012) Assessing foreign aid, the case of foreign aid to the education sector. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

The ultimate financial responsibility for improving educational access, participation, and
quality lies with national governments. However, for many countries, particularly the poorest,
educational progress depends, to a significant extent, on economic assistance coming
from bilateral and multilateral donors. This study tries to understand how donors mobilize
and allocate their resources to promote the education sector in the developing world, and
to what extent they are successful in doing so. Our primary interest lies in the analysis of
donor agencies and their behaviours, rather than the situations of education aid recipient
countries. In addition to a chapter for the introduction and another for the conclusion, we
assess education aid with the help of three interlinked studies. First, we look at how donors
resource transfers have affected education sector achievements in education aid recipient
countries. Second, we examine how donors commit their education aid resources for education
in developing countries. Third, we present the determinants of the donors efforts (the
total volume of education aid that a donor country makes available to the all recipients) in
providing foreign aid for the education sector.

• Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Keywords: Foreign Aid, Education Aid Effectivness, Aid Effort, Aid Determinants, Education Sector
• Subjects: L Education > L Education (General); H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance; H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
• Colleges/Schools: College of Social Sciences > Adam Smith Business School > Economics
• Supervisor's Name: Angeles, Dr. Luis
• Date of Award: 2012
• Depositing User: Mr Sohail Farooq
• Unique ID: glathesis:2012-3691
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 30 Oct 2012
• Last Modified: 10 Dec 2012 14:09
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/3691