| dc.description.abstract | This study presents an assessment of the role of foreign aid in developing countries, having
Kenya as the case study for the period between 1990-2010. Towards this assessment of the role
of foreign aid, the study outlines three main objectives. The first objective is on finding out the
role of foreign aid in Kenya’s economic development. Secondly, is on examining the
contribution of foreign aid towards good governance, and thirdly, to find out the influence of
foreign aid on foreign policy. In order to achieve this, the study is sub-divided into five chapters.
Chapter one begins with giving an insight into foreign aid, giving a background on foreign aid
operations in Africa. The chapter also, defines the research study and puts it into context through
the introduction and background of study. This chapter also presents the Research Questions, the
dependent variables, thesis, and hypothesis and the methodology and the literature review
sections. The literature review was done with a wealth of extractions from well-known authors
and rich sources of publications to re-emphasize the fact that their ideologies were in line with
the study objectives. This strengthened the study. The literature review focused a lot on the
research questions and objectives. Thus, the areas largely explored in the literature review were
foreign aid and economic development, good governance and foreign policy.
Chapter two examines foreign aid in Africa, highlighting the major donors in Africa’s foreign aid
and tracing back the history of foreign aid. In addition, this chapter examines the impacts of
foreign aid on Africa’s economic development, governance and foreign policy.
Chapter three focuses on Kenya. It therefore examines foreign aid in Kenya, it impacts on
Kenya’s economic growth and governance. In addition, this chapter examines evolution and
trend of foreign aid in Kenya, throughout the period under study that is between 1990-2010. This
chapter also gives an in-depth discussion of foreign aid in different sectors of the Kenyan
economy, such as Education, Agriculture and Infrastructure.
In chapters four and five the researcher presents data analysis, presentation of data and
interpretation of the collected data. This is done in form of graphs, tables and charts that clearly
show correlation between the variables in chapters four and five. These are accompanied by brief
notes to explain each figure and chart, to further enhance the understanding of the data. Finally,
the study gives the recommendation and conclusion. The study findings indicated the impact of
foreign aid on the economic growth of developing countries. These impacts were analyzed using
time series data for foreign aid which shows that there is a positive impact on the economic
growth of Kenya. Thus, this study found out that there is a positive relationship between foreign
aid and economic growth and thus the impact of Foreign aid on the country’s economy cannot be
ignored. | en |
