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- Title
The Shadow of Official Development Assistance: ODA, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in Recipients.
- Authors
Moon, Chungshik; Kim, Youngwan; Kim, Da Sul
- Abstract
While the shadow economy seems to have both positive and negative effects on a country's macroeconomy, almost all governments have attempted to control the shadow economy to prevent the loss of tax revenues and the attendant impact on the government budget. Even though official development assistance (ODA) has no formal link with the shadow economy, we often observe a relationship between the two in recipient countries. We argue that ODA can increase the size of the shadow economy in recipient countries through both government and individual-level flows of ODA to the shadow economy. We analyzed data on the shadow economies of 107 ODA recipients from 1990 to 2018 using both fixed effect and Driscoll–Kraay estimators. The results show that recipients receiving a higher volume of ODA are more likely to have a larger shadow economy. Moreover, the relationship between ODA and the shadow economy is stronger in more corrupt recipients. We dealt with endogeneity issues using the generalized method of moments, which supported our findings.
- Subjects
INFORMAL sector; INTERNATIONAL economic assistance; GENERALIZED method of moments; CORRUPTION; INTERNAL revenue
- Publication
International Studies Quarterly, 2024, Vol 68, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0020-8833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/isq/sqae070