Research about the condition of effective development aid policy

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03441
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Nagoya City University
• Principal Investigator: Morita Yuichi 名古屋市立大学, 大学院経済学研究科, 教授 (30285225)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-10-21 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 経済援助 / 経済成長 / 経済格差

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to analyze the correlation between aid policy and inequality. Many researchers have attempted to find a clear effect of aid on income growth, or aid and inequality. However, these relationships are fragile. Therefore, we divide the concept of aid into pro-poor aid and aid for economic policy in this research. So we show that pro-poor aid for poor people contributes to decreasing of inequality. We suggest that pro-poor aid may not contribute to increase of economic growth rate at the same time. From theoretical view, we showed that aid policy for a child is effective in increasing birth rate. Furthermore, increase of educational cost lower the possibility of becoming skilled worker.

Free Research Field

マクロ経済