Author(s)

Guy Paulin Dazoue Dongue

Faculty of Economics and Management, The University of Maroua, Maroua, Cameroon.

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.

Aid for Trade, Trade Balance, Gravity Model, Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood, Sub-Saharan African Countries

Dongue, G. (2025) The Effectiveness of Aid for Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa. Theoretical Economics Letters, 15, 1-15. doi: 10.4236/tel.2025.151001.