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The fiscal management of foreign aid in sub-Saharan Africa

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Loujaina Abdelwahed focuses on the impact of foreign aid and natural resources, and the difference between temporary and permanent foreign aid in sub-Saharan Africa, aiming to understand how this affects government spending

Foreign aid is managed by governments whose countries are in need. Their decisions on how that money is managed greatly affect countries’ subsequent economic performance. Loujaina Abdelwahed, Assistant Professor in Economics at The Cooper Union, argues that whether aid is received permanently or temporarily is an overlooked determinant of how a recipient country’s fiscal performance reacts. She focuses her research […]

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