IMPACT OF GOEVERNMENT REGIME CHANGE ON FOREIGN AID INFLOWS TO KENYA OVER THE PERIOD 1980-2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47672/ajppa.170Keywords:
government regime, change, foreign aid inflows to KenyaAbstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine whether a change in government regime over the period 1980 to 2014 had any impact on foreign aid inflows to Kenya.
Methodology: The study was qualitative in nature and used a research design that is descriptive in nature. The research reviewed recent literature on the determinants of foreign aid allocation to Kenya both bilateral and multilateral aid. Secondary data was collected from World Bank development indicators, surveys conducted by the Kenya government, strategic plans, financial and narrative reports, publications, policy documents and other relevant documents. The target population of the study included the ministry of foreign affairs with the aim of understanding the foreign policy of the various government regimes as well as the ministry of finance. International non-governmental organizations also formed part of the target group to enable us understand the criteria used for their disbursement of foreign aid to Kenya.
Results: Based on the findings the study concluded that change in government regimes influenced the foreign aid inflows to Kenya.
Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: Based on the findings the study recommended that governments must be willing to exit from power once their term is over.
Downloads
References
International development Strategy for the Second United Nations Decade, UN general assembly resolution 2626 (XXV) October 24th 1970.
Burnside. C. and Dollar .D. Aid, Policies, and Growth,” Ameri can Economic Review, Vol 90: 847-868, 2000.
Lancaster, C., Aid Effectiveness in Africa: The Unfinished Agenda, Journal of African Economies, 5(4).
Mold A, Policy Ownership and Aid conditionality in the Light of the Financial Crisis; A critical review, OECD Publishing, 2009.
Gunning J.W, Rethinking aid, World Bank, Washington DC, 2000.
Hirvonen P, Why increases in recent development aid fail to help the poor, Global Policy Forum, 2005.
Accra Agenda for Action, 3rd High level Forum on Aid effectiveness, 2008.
Mwega, F. M. Foreign Aid, Monetary Policy and Economic Growth in Kenya, paper prepared for Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), 2004.
Hansen H, Tarp F, Vikkelso S, aid effectivenss: A survey of 30 years of literature on Aid-Savings, Aid-investments and Aid-Growth Linkages, Development Economics Research Group 1998.
Acemoglun& Robinson, (2004)‘Kleptocracy and divide-and-rule: A model of personal rule’, Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2, 162-192.
Mwenda & Tangri, (2005). ‘Patronage politics, donor reforms, and regime consolidation in Uganda’, African Affairs, 104, 416, 449-467.
Esman, (1997) ‘Can foreign aid moderate ethnic conflict?’, Peaceworks No. 13, United States Institute of Peace, Washington.
Bueno de Mesquita B., A. Smith, R.M. Siverso and J. Morrow (2003): The Logic of Political Survival, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
McGillivray, M., Feeny, S., Hermes, N. and R. Lensink (2006), "Controversies over the impact of development aid: it works; it doesn’t; it can, but that depends," Journal of International Development, vol. 18, no.7, p.1031–1050.
Ouattara, B. (2006), "Foreign aid and government fiscal behavior in developing countries: Panel data evidence," Economic Modeling, vol.23, p.506-514.
OECD2009http://www.oecd.org/document/12/0,3343,en_2649_37431_42788172_1_1_1_1,00.html
Hansen, H. and Tarp, F. (2001), "Aid and Growth Regressions". Journal of Development Economics.
Ojiambo V. (2013) Effects of foreign aid predictability on investment and economic growth in Kenya, Kenyatta University.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.
