Unité mixte de recherche 7235

The long-term impact of U.S. aid on poverty alleviation: the role of a seat in the Security Council of the United Nations

Juliana Yael Milovich

Fifty years of literature on aid-effectiveness has been inconclusive so far. The main challenges that remain are to properly identify the causal effect of aid on poverty alleviation and to dispose of reliable data on poverty. To confront the first problem we use the number of years a country has spent at the Security Council of the United Nations (UNSC) as the instrumental variable to explain the amount of U.S. economic aid received (Kuziemko and Werker, 2006). We also use multidimensional poverty data (OPHI, 2016), which is highly reliable. We estimate, for a sample of 64 developing countries, the impact of average aid received between 1946 and 1999 in reducing poverty between 2000 and 2014. Our results suggest that, despite the low transparency of these flows, a country that has spent at least two mandates at the UNSC between 1946 and 1999 has succeeded to significantly reduce the percentage of population living in multidimensional poverty by 0.33 % in the long run. The highest positive effect is observed through the increase in years of schooling (0.71 %) and, to a lesser extent, through the improvement of living standards (0.41 % on average).

AGENDA

jeudi 30 mars 2023

Groupe de travail « Intelligence artificielle »

Paola Tubaro (CREST)

Salle : G614B

Artificial intelligence, labour transformations, and inconspicuous inequalities: women’s work on digital ‘micro-tasking’ platforms

jeudi 30 mars 2023

Doctorants

Morel Tien

Migration et synchronisation des cycles

lundi 3 avril 2023

Law, Institutions and Economics in Nanterre (LIEN)

Stefania Marcassa (CY Cergy)

En salle 614 et en distanciel

TBA

mardi 4 avril 2023

Recherche et Economie et Socioéconomie Politique, des Institutions et des Régulations (RESPIR)

Franck Bessis (Triangle et Université Lyon 2)

Une ethnographie de l’expertise économique d’Etat

mardi 4 avril 2023

Développement Durable Environnement et Energie (DDEE)

Etienne Lorang (Tilburg University)

Salle 614B de 16h00 – 17h00)

A CGE Integrating Material Stocks and Flows

jeudi 6 avril 2023

Lunch

Axel Gautier (Université de Liège)

The energy community and the grid

jeudi 6 avril 2023

Groupe de travail « Intelligence artificielle »

Renaud Aioutz-Lefebvre (OpenStudio)

Recherche de synergies productives et synergies inter-entreprises

mardi 11 avril 2023

Recherche et Economie et Socioéconomie Politique, des Institutions et des Régulations (RESPIR)

Fabrice Dannequin (Université de Reims champagne Ardenne & laboratoire REGARDS)

L’Etat et le capitalisme chez Schumpeter. Un parasite utile ?

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