Essay
Belt and Road vs. World Bank Aid Frameworks in Africa: Corruption Barriers and Sustainable Development Progress
Washington State University
Spring 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000003761
Abstract
By running a multiple regression, I test if World Bank as prime donor and levels of corruption between the years of 2013 and 2017 have had any influence on three chosen SDG indicators, population with access to electricity, CO2 emissions and percent of female population employed with wage and salary. Secondly, I test if additional BRI aid or additional World Bank aid produce different outcomes with regards to the chosen SDG indicators. Lastly, I test whether the type of aid framework has had an influence on levels of corruption.
The results from the first group of tests did not support the hypothesis that when the World Bank is primary loan provider, we should see improved SDGs results. Instead, the results found that there was only a significant relation in two of the six SDG indicators tested. Of the two relationships, there was a decline in SDG progress when the World Bank was the primary donor. The research question asked, do unconditioned BRI loans and conditioned World Bank loans produce different outcomes with regards to the SDGs? Of the significant relationships found, additional aid from BRI improved SDG indicator results, while additional World Bank aid reduced SDG results. When looking at how corruption is correlated with the achievement of SDGs, in support of my hypothesis, evidence suggests that corruption is negatively correlated with SDG progress. Secondly, the relationship between BRI aid, World Bank aid and corruption that I referenced in my theory was partially supported by the data. The evidence suggests that additional World Bank aid led to reduced levels of corruption, while additional BRI aid increased levels of corruption.
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- Title
- Belt and Road vs. World Bank Aid Frameworks in Africa: Corruption Barriers and Sustainable Development Progress
- Creators
- Emma Ekman (Author)
- Contributors
- Jacob Scott Lewis (Supervisor) - Washington State University, Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, School of
- Academic Unit
- Honors Theses (WSU Pullman)
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99900720968101842
- Language
- German
- Resource Type
- Essay