%0 Journal Article
%T The Effectiveness of Aid for Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa
%A Guy Paulin Dazoue Dongue
%J Theoretical Economics Letters
%P 1-15
%@ 2162-2086
%D 2025
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/tel.2025.151001
%X The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of Aid for Trade in Sub-Saharan African countries. This study examines the nature of the link between Aid for Trade on both exports and imports of Sub-Saharan African countries with OECD countries over the period 2005 to 2017. From the estimation of the two respective gravity models by the Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood method, it emerges that aid for trade negatively affects the export flows and positively affects the import flows of Sub-Saharan African countries in the trade relationship with OECD countries. Aid for trade is therefore ineffective because it contributes to maintaining a trade deficit for sub-Saharan African countries. It is therefore recommended that development partners focus aid for trade on the recipient countries’ import substitution strategy.
%K Aid for Trade
%K Trade Balance
%K Gravity Model
%K Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood
%K Sub-Saharan African Countries
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=138831