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Mr. Aderopo Raphael Adediyan and Ms. Venus Nmakanmma Obadoni
Volume 3 Issue 2 | Dec 2020
DOI: 10.31841/KJSSH.2021.40
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This paper analyzed the significance of education-tied external aid, and the role of disease on school enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, the analysis focused extensively on primary, secondary and tertiary school enrolment over a period of 2010 and 2019 for 42 selected countries in the region. After controlling for income per head, maternal mortality, employment, and the previous school enrolment level, vital in the GMM regression results estimated among the school levels is a common phenomenon of a significant positive impact of external aid disbursed to education, and a negative effect of disease, particularly malaria, on school enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa. In essence, primary, secondary and tertiary school enrolment increases with a growth in education aid and decreases as malaria disease spreads in the region. Keywords: External aid, Education, School enrolment, Malaria.