Abstract
President G.W. Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been rated as one of the successful US aid interventions of recent decades. We investigate the impact of PEPFAR on economic development, democracy, and human rights by comparing focus countries that received PEPFAR with other countries that did not receive PEPFAR from 2003 to 2008. Moreover, we examine specific changes made within focus countries after the implementation of PEPFAR using Difference-in-Difference estimation. Our results show that PEPFAR did improve economic conditions in focus countries but had a limited impact on political conditions, that is, on democracy and human rights.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 441-463 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Global Economic Review |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2016S1A3A2925085 and NRF-2015S1A3A2046224]. Y. Kim also thanks for the support from Hankuk University of Foregin Studies Research Fund.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Institute of East and West Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Business and International Management
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Political Science and International Relations
