DEPENDANCE VIS-A-VIS DE L’AIDE PUBLIQUE AU DEVELOPPEMENT (APD) EN AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST

The debate on ODA dependency in sub-Saharan African countries is not a new issue. Theobjective of this paperis to define a threshold of ODA dependence for West African countries.Using a study period from 1980 to 2017 and data from the World Bank, the econometricanalysis was carried out using a Panel Thre shold Regression model introduced by Hansen(1999) and developed by Wang (2015). The results conclude the existence of an optimaldependency threshold of about 11.20% of GDP. These results constitute an importantcontribution to the ODA literature. A study taking in to account the definition of this threshold will allow us to classify West African countries by degree of dependence