Foreign Aid

In 2019, OECD member countries provided over USD 150 billion in foreign aid to promote development globally.

However, COVID-19 is likely to reduce foreign aid and impact on the budgets of NGOs. CID researchers examine the allocation and impact of this assistance at both a macroeconomic level as well as the individual and household level impacts of aid provided by NGOs.

Lead: Simon Feeny 

Other researchers: Sefa Churchill, Alberto Posso

SDG alignment 

Relevant projects and publications

Evaluation of child sponsorship programs for World Vision and Plan International with pictures and a brief description of the work with links to reports and the organisations.

Recent publications

  • Munyanyi, M. E., Awaworyi Churchill, S., and Skali, A. (2020) “Foreign Aid and Development Goals: Revisiting the Evidence” in S Awaworyi Churchill (ed.), “Moving from the Millennium to the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons and Recommendations”, Palgrave MacMillan: Singapore.
  • Feeny, S., Hansen, P., Knowles, S., McGillivray, M. and F. Ombler (2019), Donor Motives, Public Preferences and the Allocation of UK Foreign Aid: A Discrete Choice Experiment Approach, Review of World Economics, Vol.55, No.3, pp.511-537.
  • Clarke, M. and S. Feeny (2019), The Dragon versus the Kangaroo: Perceptions of Chinese and Australian Influence and Development Assistance in Vanuatu, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol.4, No.3, pp.334-354.
  • Feeny, S. and V. Vuong (2017), Explaining Aid Project and Program Success: Findings from Asian Development Bank Interventions, World Development, Vol.90, pp.329-343.
  • Feeny, S. and M. McGillivray (2016), Aid and Global Poverty, in Brady, D. and L. Burton (eds.) Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty, Oxford University Press, New York.
  • McGillivray, M. and S. Feeny (2015), Aid, Growth, Policies and Fragility, in M.Arvin (ed.) Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid, Edward Elgar, UK.
  • Feeny, S, Awaworyi-Churchill, S. and A. Posso (2020), "International Development Targets and Small Island Developing States" in John L Roberts, Shyam Nath, Satya Paul and Yeti Nisha Madhoo (eds.) Shaping the Future of Small Islands: Roadmap for Sustainable Development, Palgrave MacMillan, Singapore.
  • Churchill, S., Elkins, M. and S. Feeny (2020), "Did Social Protection Assist with Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals?" in Sefa Churchill (ed.) Moving from the Millennium to the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons and Recommendations, Palgrave MacMillan.

 

Work in Progress

  • Awaworyi-Churchill, S,. Feeny, S. and A. Posso (2020), Does Child Sponsorship Improve School Attendance?
  • Jennings, M., Clarke, M,. Feeny,S., Westhorp, G. and C. Donohue (2020), A Potent Fuel? Faith Identity and Development Impact in World Vision Community Programming.
  • Munyanyi, M. E., and Awaworyi Churchill, S. (2020) “Foreign Aid and energy poverty: sub-national evidence from Senegal
  • Munyanyi, M. E., Awaworyi Churchill, S., and Feeny, S. (2020) “Foreign aid and child health outcomes: Micro-evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.