Western Aid At A Crossroads

Author : Øyvind Eggen,Kjell Roland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137380326

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Western Aid at a Crossroads by Øyvind Eggen,Kjell Roland Pdf

The new growth patterns and shifting wealth in the world economy fundamentally alter the basis for Western aid. This book demonstrates how Western development aid has been transformed over time, in particular in the 1990s, when the West enjoyed world hegemony. Western aid, once a helping hand to other countries' development strategies, has increasingly been seen as a tool for large-scale attempts to transform states, societies and minds according to Western models. The authors claim that this has made aid more complex and less useful to poor countries in their fight against poverty. Emerging economies, such as China, have demonstrated that other paths to growth and poverty alleviation are available. They are attractive partners in development, offering collaboration without paternalism. Most poor countries experience growth, and are able to finance development with homegrown resources or in collaboration with non-Western partners. Having other options, they may increasingly challenge and reject Western aid if it is accompanied with goals of transforming the recipients based on Western blueprints. The authors claim that aid has a role in the fight against poverty in the future, but only if Western donors are willing to adapt to the new world order, leave paternalism behind and rethink their role in development. Donors must change the way they relate to poor sovereign states, redefine the meaning of 'development', and reinvent aid to make it simpler and more manageable.

Author : Øyvind Eggen,Kjell Roland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137380326

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Western Aid at a Crossroads by Øyvind Eggen,Kjell Roland Pdf

The new growth patterns and shifting wealth in the world economy fundamentally alter the basis for Western aid. This book demonstrates how Western development aid has been transformed over time, in particular in the 1990s, when the West enjoyed world hegemony. Western aid, once a helping hand to other countries' development strategies, has increasingly been seen as a tool for large-scale attempts to transform states, societies and minds according to Western models. The authors claim that this has made aid more complex and less useful to poor countries in their fight against poverty. Emerging economies, such as China, have demonstrated that other paths to growth and poverty alleviation are available. They are attractive partners in development, offering collaboration without paternalism. Most poor countries experience growth, and are able to finance development with homegrown resources or in collaboration with non-Western partners. Having other options, they may increasingly challenge and reject Western aid if it is accompanied with goals of transforming the recipients based on Western blueprints. The authors claim that aid has a role in the fight against poverty in the future, but only if Western donors are willing to adapt to the new world order, leave paternalism behind and rethink their role in development. Donors must change the way they relate to poor sovereign states, redefine the meaning of 'development', and reinvent aid to make it simpler and more manageable.

Author : Profant, Tomáš
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783737650038

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New Donors on the Postcolonial Crossroads by Profant, Tomáš Pdf

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eastern European countries were said to be playing catch up with the West, and in the field of development cooperation, they were classified as ‘new donors.’ This book aims to problematize this distinction between old and new development donors, applying an East–West dimension to global Orientalism discourse. The book uses a novel double postcolonial perspective, examining North – South relations and East–West relations simultaneously, and problematizing these distinctions. In particular, the book deploys an empirical analysis of a ‘new’ Eastern European donor (Slovakia), compared with an ‘old’ donor (Austria), in order to explore questions around hierarchization, depoliticization and the legitimization of development. This book’s innovative approach to the East–West dimension of global Orientalism will be of interest to researchers in postcolonial studies, Eastern European studies, and critical development studies.

Author : League of Women Voters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : OCLC:973430

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Foreign Aid at the Crossroads by League of Women Voters Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Institute
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : 1884361013

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At the Crossroads by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : MINN:31951003084492A

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Role of Private Voluntary Organizations in the U.S. Foreign Assistance Program by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Africa
ISBN : MINN:31951T00115773I

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Advance by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000090159736

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AF Press Clips by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sergei Y. Shenin
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594544298

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America's Helping Hand by Sergei Y. Shenin Pdf

Since the end of the Second World War, economic assistance has turned into the extremely important instrument of regulating international relations. However, the significance of foreign aid becomes even greater for the periods of restructuring the system of international economic relations, when it is necessary to overcome nationalistic barriers in order to influence the character and direction of recipients' economic development. At the times of serious international political and military crises, foreign aid can change its destination from economic development to security goals. During Eisenhower's presidency the struggle between these two tendencies, which were formulated in the so-called 'development assistance' and 'mutual security' doctrines, was waged particularly aggressively and uncompromisingly, since the control over foreign aid allowed any party to direct, to a considerable degree, the entire world order building process.

Author : André Asplund,Marie Soderberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315407722

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Japanese Development Cooperation by André Asplund,Marie Soderberg Pdf

The world order as we know it is currently undergoing profound changes, and in its wake, so is foreign aid. Donors of foreign aid, development assistance or development cooperation around the world are already facing new challenges in the changing development architecture. This is an architecture that globally seems to become increasingly forgiving of foreign aid as a win-win concept that also meets the donors’ own national interests—something that has been an unofficial Japanese trademark for many years. This book examines Japan’s development assistance as it transitions away from Official Development Assistance and towards Development Cooperation. In this transition, the strong and reciprocal relationships between Japanese development policy and comprehensive security, diplomacy, foreign, domestic and economic policies are likely to become even more consolidated and integrated. The utilization of, and changes within, Japanese development policy therefore affects not only recipients of foreign aid but also the relationships Japan enjoys with its allies and strategic partners, as well as the relations to competing donors and rivals in the region and around the world. Japanese foreign aid as such provides an extremely interesting case from where regional and even global changes can be understood. Written by a multidisciplinary team of contributors from the fields of political science, international relations, development, economics, public opinion and Japan studies, the book sets out to be innovative in capturing the essence of the changing patterns of development cooperation, and more importantly, Japan’s role in within it, in an era of great change. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese Politics, Foreign Policy and International Relations.

Author : G. Crawford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230509245

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Foreign Aid and Political Reform by G. Crawford Pdf

The linkage of development aid to the promotion of human rights, democracy and good governance was a striking departure in the post-cold war foreign policies of Northern 'donor' governments. Uniquely, this book provides a systematic and comparative investigation of policies and practices in the 1990s to promote political reform in Southern 'recipient' countries by four donors, the governments of Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus the European Union. The use of both carrot and stick, that is democracy assistance and aid sanctions, is examined and sharp criticism of current practice offered.

Author : Mid-west Debate Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : PSU:000006988241

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Should the United States Discontinue Economic Aid to Foreign Countries? by Mid-west Debate Bureau Pdf

Author : Liam Swiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351337038

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The Globalization of Foreign Aid by Liam Swiss Pdf

Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide array of aid policies and priorities? This book suggests that this homogenization of policy represents the effects of common processes of globalization manifest in the aid sector. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative analysis of policy adoption, the book argues that we need to examine macro-level globalizing influences at the same time as understanding the micro-level social processes at work within aid agencies, in order to adequately explain the so-called ‘emerging global consensus’ that constitutes the globalization of aid. The book explores how global influences on aid agencies in Canada, Sweden, and the United States are mediated through micro-level processes. Using a mixed-methods approach, the book combines cross-national statistical analysis at the global level with two comparative case studies which look at the adoption of common policy priorities in the fields of gender and security. The Globalization of Foreign Aid will be useful to researchers of foreign aid, development, international relations and globalization, as well as to the aid policy community.

Author : David Arase
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134239023

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Japan's Foreign Aid by David Arase Pdf

Filling a gap in the existing literature, this book analyzes the distinctive features of Japan’s development aid, especially technical co-operation, in comparison with other donors’ aid. Incorporating a wealth of research, it discusses whether Japan is behind other leading donor countries in rethinking its aid policy and whether it lacks transparency, sensitivity to recipient needs, and a coherent and coordinated policy that targets poverty. The volume assesses the nature and effectiveness of the administration of Japan’s aid, and explores the degree of involvement of private sector and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Including contributions from experts with direct experience with Japanese ODA, the book provides a wide range of recipient and donor viewpoints and presents important policy recommendations.

Author : Louis A. Picard,Robert Groelsema,Terry F. Buss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317470397

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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.