Contending Theories On Development Aid

Author : Leslie O. Omoruyi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351808460

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Contending Theories on Development Aid by Leslie O. Omoruyi Pdf

This title was first published in 2001: This thorough and comprehensive examination of the nature and pattern of post-Cold War aid to sub-Saharan Africa provides incisive, comparative case studies of the motivations behind the foreign aid policies of key members of the Development Association Committee (DAC). In one of the most rigorous contemporary efforts to evaluate the adequacy of the dominant theories of international relations on an important subject like foreign aid, Dr Omoruyi eschews easy answers to the problem of Africa's marginalization in the international system. He provides thoughtful, innovative suggestions for promoting a new development partnership between industrialized countries and Africa using a sophisticated quantitative method of inquiry, making this text a valuable contribution to social science literature on research methods.

Author : Nabamita Dutta,Claudia R. Williamson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030221218

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Lessons on Foreign Aid and Economic Development by Nabamita Dutta,Claudia R. Williamson Pdf

A response to the pressing need to address and clarify the substantial ambiguity within current literature, this edited volume aims to deepen readers’ understanding of the impact of foreign aid on development outcomes based on the latest findings in research over the past decade. Foreign aid has long been seen as one of two extremes: either beneficial or damaging, a blessing or a curse. Consequently, many readers perceive aid’s effectiveness based on the work of scholars who are assessing the impact of aid from one of two antithetical perspectives. This book takes a different approach, shedding light on recent research that can deepen our understanding of the complex relationship between aid and its aftereffects. Drawing from an extensive set of studies that have explored micro and macro impacts of foreign aid for recipient nations, chapter authors highlight more layered and nuanced findings, with a focus on donor characteristics, political motives, and an evaluation of aid projects and their effectiveness, including the differential impact based on type of aid. This volume is the first of its kind to unpack aid as a complex rather than a unitary concept and explore the wide areas of grey that have long enshrouded foreign aid.

Author : Clark C. Gibson,Krister Andersson,Elinor Ostrom,Sujai Shivakumar
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199278848

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The Samaritan's Dilemma by Clark C. Gibson,Krister Andersson,Elinor Ostrom,Sujai Shivakumar Pdf

The authors argue that much of foreign aid's failure is related to the institutions that structure its delivery. They offer concrete suggestions about how to improve aid's effectiveness.

Author : Leslie O. Omoruyi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351808477

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Contending Theories on Development Aid by Leslie O. Omoruyi Pdf

This title was first published in 2001: This thorough and comprehensive examination of the nature and pattern of post-Cold War aid to sub-Saharan Africa provides incisive, comparative case studies of the motivations behind the foreign aid policies of key members of the Development Association Committee (DAC). In one of the most rigorous contemporary efforts to evaluate the adequacy of the dominant theories of international relations on an important subject like foreign aid, Dr Omoruyi eschews easy answers to the problem of Africa's marginalization in the international system. He provides thoughtful, innovative suggestions for promoting a new development partnership between industrialized countries and Africa using a sophisticated quantitative method of inquiry, making this text a valuable contribution to social science literature on research methods.

Author : Thomas Carothers,Diane de Gramont
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780870034022

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Development Aid Confronts Politics by Thomas Carothers,Diane de Gramont Pdf

A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process is driving aid providers to try to learn how to think and act politically. Major donors are pursuing explicitly political goals alongside their traditional socioeconomic aims and introducing more politically informed methods throughout their work. Yet these changes face an array of external and internal obstacles, from heightened sensitivity on the part of many aid-receiving governments about foreign political interventionism to inflexible aid delivery mechanisms and entrenched technocratic preferences within many aid organizations. This pathbreaking book assesses the progress and pitfalls of the attempted politics revolution in development aid and charts a constructive way forward. Contents: Introduction 1. The New Politics Agenda The Original Framework: 1960s-1980s 2. Apolitical Roots Breaking the Political Taboo: 1990s-2000s 3. The Door Opens to Politics 4. Advancing Political Goals 5. Toward Politically Informed Methods The Way Forward 6. Politically Smart Development Aid 7. The Unresolved Debate on Political Goals 8. The Integration Frontier Conclusion 9. The Long Road to Politics

Author : Roger Riddell
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002285927

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Foreign Aid Reconsidered by Roger Riddell Pdf

Author : Louis M. Imbeau
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000004358051

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Donor Aid--the Determinants of Development Allocations to Third-World Countries by Louis M. Imbeau Pdf

This fascinating study on international development aid addresses a central, yet too often neglected question: what does account for the variation in commitments to economic aid across the OECD donors? Building on a theoretical framework derived from «bounded rationality», Louis M. Imbeau elaborates a number of competing explanations and proceeds to test them on data collected for 17 OECD donors over the period 1966-1981. In so doing, this book makes a significant contribution to an interesting body of literature.

Author : Patrick Develtere,Huib Huyse,Jan Van Ongevalle
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789462702615

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International Development Cooperation Today by Patrick Develtere,Huib Huyse,Jan Van Ongevalle Pdf

Over the past 60 years high-income countries have invested over 4000 billion euros in development aid. With varying degrees of success, these investments in low-income countries contributed to tackling structural problems such as access to water, health care, and education. Today, however, international development cooperation is no longer restricted to helping by giving. Instead, it is rather about opportunities, mutual interests, risk taking, and an inclusive societal approach. With the arrival of major new actors such as China, India, and Brazil, and the manifestation of private companies and foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, development aid is being eclipsed by new forms of international cooperation, increasingly accompanied by investments, trade, and give-and-take exchanges. The agenda for sustainable development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 and to be realised by 2030, is a case in point of new influential frameworks that usher in a global rather than a traditional North-South perspective. This book reviews 60 years of international development aid and its relevant actors, outlining today’s challenges and opportunities. Richly illustrated with case studies and examples, International Development Cooperation Today maps successes and failures and synthesises visions and discussions from all over the world. By pointing out the radical shift from the traditional North-South perspective to a global paradigm, this book is essential reading for all practitioners, academics, and donors involved in development aid.

Author : Pedro Amakasu Raposo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136754432

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Japan's Foreign Aid to Africa by Pedro Amakasu Raposo Pdf

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was established in 1993 with the intention of creating opportunities for trade and investment on both sides and the promotion of sustainable development. In 2003, the conference translated Japanese aid policy to Africa into three key pillars: human centered development, poverty reduction through economic growth, and the consolidation of peace, and since 2005 Africa has on several occasions been the largest recipient of Japanese overseas aid. Tracing Japanese foreign aid to Africa during and after the Cold War, this book examines how the TICAD process sits at the intersection of international relations and domestic decision making. Indeed, it questions whether the increase in aid has been driven by domestic changes such as demands from civil society and donor interest, or pressures emanating from the international system. Taking Angola and Mozambique as case studies, the book explores how Japan’s development cooperation with Africa has assisted previously war torn states make the transition from war to peace, and in doing so demonstrates the centrality of human security to Japanese foreign policy as a means of ensuring sustainable development. This book will have great interdisciplinary appeal to students and scholars of Japanese and African studies, Japanese politics, international relations theory, foreign policy, economic development and sustainable development.

Author : Chithra Purushothaman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030515379

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Emerging Powers, Development Cooperation and South-South Relations by Chithra Purushothaman Pdf

This book analyses the role of emerging powers as a development assistance providers and the nature of their development cooperation, their behaviour, motives and markedly their changing identities in international relations. With their growing economic and political clout, emerging powers are using economic instruments like foreign aid to ensure their position in the international system that is going through power shifts. By comparing three major emerging economies of the Global South- Brazil, India and China- this book would explore how emerging powers are changing the international aid architecture that is created and dominated by the traditional donors.

Author : Pedro Amakasu Raposo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137493989

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Japan’s Foreign Aid Policy in Africa by Pedro Amakasu Raposo Pdf

Japan's Foreign Aid Policy in Africa seeks to evaluate TICAD's intellectual contribution to and its development practices regarding Africa over the past 20 years. A central conclusion is that, while TICAD bureaucrats lacked agency to support Japanese companies in Africa, the model of emerging powers partnerships has expanded in Africa.

Author : Emel Parlar Dal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030276324

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Turkey’s Political Economy in the 21st Century by Emel Parlar Dal Pdf

This book shows the remarkable diversification in Turkey’s international political economy landscape in the 2000s: its domestic political-economy framework, instrumental alternatives and geographic outreach. It assesses both how an emerging economy like Turkey copes with domestic and external challenges and the question of how substantial Turkey’s recent rise in global politics really is. The volume also explains Turkey’s economic growth and political transformation in line with the changes occurring in world economics, from the Washington Consensus era to the current “mix” or “hybrid” era encompassing both the characteristics of the Post-Washington and Beijing Consensus eras. The contributors portray the complexity of Turkish politics and its fragilities at the political economy level.

Author : Patrick Develtere,Huib Huyse,Jan Van Ongevalle
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789058679024

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How Do We Help? by Patrick Develtere,Huib Huyse,Jan Van Ongevalle Pdf

This book draws up the balance sheet of 50 years of development aid and provides an overview of all relevant players, of opportunities and obstacles, of successes and failures.

Author : Kjetil Fretheim
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3039116622

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Rights and Riches by Kjetil Fretheim Pdf

Development aid has recently become an important part of international politics in general and Norwegian foreign policy in particular. This study explores the moral discourse of contemporary Norwegian development aid organisations and professional development workers. Adopting a discourse-analytical and multi-disciplinary approach, key concepts such as human rights, charity, justice and compassion are discussed. Furthermore, the notions of professionalism and partnerships in development are addressed, as well as the role and life-style of the individual development worker. The following development agencies have been analysed: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Church Aid, Save the Children Norway, and Norwegian People's Aid. Twenty-three staff members and representatives of these organisations have been interviewed.

Author : J. Oloka-Onyango,Nicolas van de Walle
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781443870931

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Problems, Promises, and Paradoxes of Aid by J. Oloka-Onyango,Nicolas van de Walle Pdf

This book is an anthology of essays contributing new scholarship to the contemporary discourse on the concept of aid. It provides an interdisciplinary investigation of the role of aid in African development, compiling the work of historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and economists to examine where aid has failed and to offer new perspectives on how aid can be made more effective. Questions regarding the effectiveness of aid are addressed here using specific case studies. The question of ownership is examined in the context of two debates: 1) to what extent should aid be designed by the recipient country itself? and 2) should aid focus on “need” or “performance”? That is, should donors direct aid to the poorest countries, regardless of their policies and governance, or should aid “reward” countries for doing the right thing? The future of aid is also addressed: should aid continue to be a part of the development agenda for countries in sub-Saharan Africa? If so, how much and what type of aid is needed, and how it can be made most effective? The major criticism against aid is that it cripples the recipient country’s economic growth by turning it into a passive receiver; in addition, it has been noted that aid is mostly supply-driven, depending upon donors rather than the actual needs of recipients. For this reason, aid may not meet the goals for which it was intended. To meet the needs of the communities they want to help, donors should work through consultation and a measure of recipient ownership. Donors need to understand context, to protect human rights, and to be guided by principles of social and environmental justice. Other suggested strategies for making aid more effective include peer review; self-assessment; the empowerment of women; encouraging accountability; investing in agriculture; helping smallholder subsistence farmers; introducing ethical and professional standards for civil service; and raising the competence of civil servants.