Women Legislators in Africa and Foreign Aid

doi:10.1093/wber/lhac027

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Women Legislators in Africa and Foreign Aid

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dc.contributor.author	Annen, Kurt
dc.contributor.author	Asiamah, Henrietta A.
dc.date.accessioned	2024-03-28T20:34:57Z
dc.date.available	2024-03-28T20:34:57Z
dc.date.issued	2023-01-04
dc.description.abstract	There has been a significant rise in the share of women legislators in Africa. What makes this fact puzzling is that it cannot be attributed to an African electorate that values gender equality and having women in political leadership positions. In stark contrast to this, gender equality and women’s empowerment have successively moved up in the priority list of the international donor community over the last two decades. This raises the question of whether there is a relationship between women legislators in Africa and foreign-aid allocations. This study finds a strong and statistically robust relationship: an increase in the share of women legislators from 15 to 20 percent is associated with an increase of about 4 percent in aid conditional on current levels of aid. Additionally, the study finds that democratic countries receive more aid but does not find an interaction effect between democracy and the share of women legislators, which suggests that donors do not tailor their gender selective aid towards more democratic countries. The results provide evidence in support of aid selectivity for policies that improve gender equality in aid-recipient countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	The World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/41319
dc.identifier.issn	0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn	1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41319
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Bank Economic Review
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
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dc.subject	FOREIGN-AID ALLOCATIONS
dc.subject	WOMEN MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
dc.subject	RESERVED SEATS
dc.subject	AID SELECTIVITY
dc.title	Women Legislators in Africa and Foreign Aid	en
dc.type	Journal Article
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okr.date.disclosure	2024-03-28
okr.date.lastmodified	2023-09-11T00:00:00Z	en
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okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.geographical	Africa
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Foreign Aid
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Governance
okr.topic	Governance::International Governmental Organizations
okr.unit	Gender Impact Evaluation (AFEGI)
okr.volume	37 (1)
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