Foreign Assistance

Author : Stephen Brown
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773587090

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Struggling for Effectiveness by Stephen Brown Pdf

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) allocates vast sums of money each year, providing vital assistance to countless individuals across the developing world. Yet many observers and insiders have sharply criticized CIDA for its lack of concrete results. Presenting a range of work by scholars and practitioners, this collection offers the most comprehensive examination of CIDA's efforts in over a decade. Contributors explore recent trends in Canadian foreign aid, including topics such as its place in Canadian politics, gender and security concerns, advocacy and public engagement, the complexity of CIDA policies, and CIDA's relationship with non-governmental organizations. The perspectives assembled in Struggling for Effectiveness bring clarity to the issue of foreign aid while judiciously gauging Canada's record and offering concrete suggestions for strengthening CIDA's efforts to help people living in poverty. Extensively researched and comprehensive in scope, Struggling for Effectiveness will be indispensable to anyone interested in Canadian assistance abroad and Canada's place in a rapidly changing world. Contributors include Stephen Baranyi (University of Ottawa), David Black (Dalhousie University), Elizabeth Blackwood (Simon Fraser University), Stephen Brown (University of Ottawa), Dominique Caouette (Université de Montréal), Adam Chapnick (Canadian Forces College), Denis Côté (Canadian Council for International Cooperation), Molly den Heyer (Dalhousie University), Nilima Gulrajani (Oxford University), Hunter McGill (University of Ottawa), Anca Paducel (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva), Rosalind Raddatz (University of Ottawa), Ian Smillie (independent scholar and consultant), Veronika Stewart (Simon Fraser University), and Liam Swiss (Memorial University of Newfoundland).

Author : Greg Donaghy,David Webster
Publisher : Beyond Boundaries: Canadian De
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1773850407

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A Samaritan State Revisited by Greg Donaghy,David Webster Pdf

A Samaritan State Revisited brings together a refreshing group of emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canada's overseas development aid. Addressing the broad ideological and institutional origins of Canada's official development assistance in the 1950s and specific themes in its evolution and professionalization after 1960, this collection is the first to explore Canada's history with foreign aid with this level of interrogative detail. Extending from the 1950s to the present and covering Canadian aid to all regions of the Global South, from South and Southeast Asia to Latin America and Africa, these essays embrace a variety of approaches and methodologies ranging from traditional, archival-based research to textual and image analysis, oral history, and administrative studies. A Samaritan State Revisited weaves together a unique synthesis of governmental and non-governmental perspectives, providing a clear and readily accessible explanation of the forces that have shaped Canadian foreign aid policy.

Author : Carol Lancaster
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226470627

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Foreign Aid by Carol Lancaster Pdf

A twentieth-century innovation, foreign aid has become a familiar and even expected element in international relations. But scholars and government officials continue to debate why countries provide it: some claim that it is primarily a tool of diplomacy, some argue that it is largely intended to support development in poor countries, and still others point out its myriad newer uses. Carol Lancaster effectively puts this dispute to rest here by providing the most comprehensive answer yet to the question of why governments give foreign aid. She argues that because of domestic politics in aid-giving countries, it has always been—and will continue to be—used to achieve a mixture of different goals. Drawing on her expertise in both comparative politics and international relations and on her experience as a former public official, Lancaster provides five in-depth case studies—the United States, Japan, France, Germany, and Denmark—that demonstrate how domestic politics and international pressures combine to shape how and why donor governments give aid. In doing so, she explores the impact on foreign aid of political institutions, interest groups, and the ways governments organize their giving. Her findings provide essential insight for scholars of international relations and comparative politics, as well as anyone involved with foreign aid or foreign policy.

Author : Jessica Trisko Darden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1503610233

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Aiding and Abetting by Jessica Trisko Darden Pdf

The United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and societies of recipient nations. Drawing on four decades of data on U.S. economic and military aid, Aiding and Abetting explores whether foreign aid does more harm than good. Jessica Trisko Darden challenges long-standing ideas about aid and its consequences, and highlights key patterns in the relationship between assistance and violence. She persuasively demonstrates that many of the foreign aid policy challenges the U.S. faced in the Cold War era, such as the propping up of dictators friendly to U.S. interests, remain salient today. Historical case studies of Indonesia, El Salvador, and South Korea illustrate how aid can uphold human freedoms or propagate human rights abuses. Aiding and Abetting encourages both advocates and critics of foreign assistance to reconsider its political and social consequences by focusing international aid efforts on the expansion of human freedom.

Author : Simone Dietrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781316519202

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States, Markets and Foreign Aid by Simone Dietrich Pdf

Explores the different choices made by donor governments when delivering foreign aid projects around the world.

Author : Olav Stokke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030062194

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International Development Assistance by Olav Stokke Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive search for the basic political drivers of international development cooperation, based on the policy and performance of the OECD countries from the early 1960s to the present. The author focuses on the stated and implemented policies of the four so-called frontrunners and the Western hegemon, scrutinizing the changing trends in the justifications, objectives and guidelines set for the policy and their evolving performance vis-à-vis the international ODA target. Through extensive research, the work examines predominant world-views, societal value systems and foreign policy traditions, in order to find the policy drivers that vary nation to nation and how development assistance has evolved globally.

Author : Leslie McGuire
Publisher : Nova Snova
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Diplomacy
ISBN : 1536141550

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Foreign Aid by Leslie McGuire Pdf

Members of Congress and Administrations have periodically considered reorganizing the federal governments trade and development functions to advance various policy objectives. This book examines the Trump administrations 2019 budget request to consolidate OPIC and other agency development finance functions, specifically the DCA of the USAID, into new US development foreign agencies. The second report shows in tabular form how much the Administration requested and how much Congress appropriated for US payments to the multilateral development banks (MDBs) since 2000. The third report included in this book looks at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) that provides economic assistance through a competitive selection process to developing nations that demonstrate positive performance in 1. Ruling justly, 2. Investing in people and 3. Fostering economic freedom. Next, an overview of US foreign assistance to Israel is provided. It includes a review of past aid programs, data on annual assistance and analysis of current issues. Finally, this book examines the legislative authorization and appropriation of funds for foreign aid and security cooperation which are potential vehicles for congressional responses to developments in Cameroon, along with oversight activities. Additionally, to date, the US has directed nearly $7.7 billion toward Syria-related humanitarian assistance, and Congress has appropriated billions more to support security and stabilization initiatives in Syria and in neighboring countries. The chapters herein provide an overview on the Syria conflict and the US response in what is now its seventh year of conflict.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Foreign Assistance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Agricultural assistance, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110084196

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Foreign Assistance Authorization, Examination of U.S. Foreign Aid Programs and Policies by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Foreign Assistance Pdf

Author : United States. Agency for International Development. Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination. Office of Planning and Budgeting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Economic assistance
ISBN : WISC:89046834479

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U.S. Overseas Loans, and Grants, and Assistance from International Organizations by United States. Agency for International Development. Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination. Office of Planning and Budgeting Pdf

Author : Louis A. Picard,Robert Groelsema,Terry F. Buss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317470380

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Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy by Louis A. Picard,Robert Groelsema,Terry F. Buss Pdf

This timely work presents cutting-edge analysis of the problems of U.S. foreign assistance programs - why these problems have not been solved in the past, and how they might be solved in the future. The book focuses primarily on U.S. foreign assistance and foreign policy as they apply to nation building, governance, and democratization. The expert contributors examine issues currently in play, and also trace the history and evolution of many of these problems over the years. They address policy concerns as well as management and organizational factors as they affect programs and policies. "Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy" includes several chapter-length case studies (on Iraq, Pakistan, Ghana, Haiti, and various countries in Eastern Europe and Africa), but the bulk of the book presents broad coverage of general topics such as foreign aid and security, NGOs and foreign aid, capacity building, and building democracy abroad. Each chapter offers recommendations on how to improve the U.S. system of aid in the context of foreign policy.

Author : Viktor Jakupec,Max Kelly
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780128036716

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Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid by Viktor Jakupec,Max Kelly Pdf

Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Trade provides updated information on how to improve foreign aid programs, exploring the concept and practice of impact assessment within the sometimes-unproblematic approaches advocated in current literature of value for money and aid for trade. Contributors from multi-lateral agencies and NGOs discuss the changing patterns of Official Development Assistance and their effects on impact assessment, providing theoretical, political, structural, methodological, and practical frameworks, discussions, and a theory-practice nexus. With twin foci of economics and policy this book raises the potential for making sophisticated and coherent decisions on aid allocation to developing countries. Addresses the impact of aid for trade and value for money, rather than its implementation Discusses the changing patterns of Official Development Assistance and their effects on impact assessment, providing theoretical, political, structural, methodological, and practical frameworks, discussions, and a theory-practice nexus Assesses the effects and implications of the value for money and aid for trade agendas Highlights economic issues

Author : Stephen Brown
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773540569

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Struggling for Effectiveness by Stephen Brown Pdf

A critical and constructive examination of Canada's assistance to developing countries.

Author : Louis A. Picard,Robert Groelsema,Terry F. Buss
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780765635181

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Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy by Louis A. Picard,Robert Groelsema,Terry F. Buss Pdf

This timely work presents cutting-edge analysis of the problems of U.S. foreign assistance programs--why these problems have not been solved in the past, and how they might be solved in the future. The book focuses primarily on U.S. foreign assistance and foreign policy as they apply to nation building, governance, and democratization. The expert contributors examine issues currently in play, and also trace the history and evolution of many of these problems over the years. They address policy concerns as well as management and organizational factors as they affect programs and policies. Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy includes several chapter-length case studies (on Iraq, Pakistan, Ghana, Haiti, and various countries in Eastern Europe and Africa), but the bulk of the book presents broad coverage of general topics such as foreign aid and security, NGOs and foreign aid, capacity building, and building democracy abroad. Each chapter offers recommendations on how to improve the U.S. system of aid in the context of foreign policy.

Author : Eric Jackson Labs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UOM:39015041354625

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The Role of Foreign Aid in Development by Eric Jackson Labs Pdf

Author : Bethany Barratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135984083

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Human Rights and Foreign Aid by Bethany Barratt Pdf

This book examines the role played by human rights in foreign policy and the determinants of foreign aid, documenting patterns in the relationships between trade, domestic politics and aid.