Download or read book Foreign Aid Reform written by Susan B. Epstein and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jan. 2006, Sec. of State Rice announced the ¿transformational development¿ initiative to bring coordination and coherence to U.S. aid programs. She created a new Bureau, which developed a Strategic Framework for Foreign Assistance to align aid programs with strategic objectives. The Framework became a guiding force in the FY 2008 and FY 2009 budgets, as well as the FY 2010 budget request. Numerous studies have addressed various concerns and provided recommendations regarding U.S. foreign aid policy, funding, and structure. Of the 16 recommendations, only enhancing civilian agency resources has the support of all of the studies covered in this report. This report is a review of selected studies written between 2001 and 2008. Table.
Download or read book Foreign Aid Reform written by Marian Leonardo Lawson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: (1) Introduction; (2) Recent Trends in Foreign Assistance; (3) U.S. Aid-Related Activities, by Agency: USAID; State; DoD; HHS; USDA; Treasury; Millennium Challenge Corp.; Peace Corps; Others; (4) Existing Coordination Mechanisms; (5) Aid Coordination in Other Countries; (6) Selected Coordination Options: Enhance Coordination as Part of a National Foreign Assistance Strategy; Empower One Entity to Coordinate All U.S. Foreign Aid; Build on White House/NSC Structures with Department/Agency Rep.; Separate Strategic Assistance from Development Assistance; Enhance Coordination and Authority at the Country Level; Require Whole of Gov¿t. Reporting; Require IG Reports on All Aid Activities; (7) Legislative Activity. Illustrations.
Download or read book Foreign Aid and Political Reform written by G. Crawford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-12-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Foreign Aid written by Paul Mosley and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic aid to developing countries is an important -- and often controversial -- part of foreign policy for many Western nations. But how effective is such aid in achieving the objectives of the giver and the recipient? In this important study, Paul Mosley offers a challenging reassessment of the role of economic aid for nations on both sides of the equation. Mosley examines in detail the foreign aid programs of the leading Western powers with particular regard to the role of aid in international politics, and then examines the effectiveness of aid as a subsidy to exports, as an instrument of development, and as a means of redistributing income and bargaining power to the very poor. Mosley also incorporates overseas aid into the general economic theory of public expenditure. He examines the various protagonists on the supply side of the market for aid expenditures and in particular those on the demand side. Supporting this analysis of ways in which the aid market adjusts over time are extensive data from the OECD countries for the past thirty years. With its searching assessment of the effectiveness of foreign aid as an instrument of dogmatic and economic policy, Mosley's new book will be essential reading for all students in the field of international relations.
Download or read book Foreign Aid Reform National Strategy and the Quadrennial Review written by Susan B. Epstein and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report addresses foreign aid reform through early 2010. Several development proponents, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and policymakers have pressed Congress to reform U.S. foreign aid capabilities to better address 21st century development needs and national security challenges.
Download or read book Foreign Aid Reform written by Susan B. Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Aid Reform written by Denise Fantone and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jan. 2006, to better align foreign assistance programs with U.S. foreign policy goals, the Sec. of State appointed the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for Internat¿l. Dev¿t. (USAID) to serve concurrently as Dir. of Foreign Assistance and gave it authority over all Dept. of State and USAID foreign assistance funding and programs. The Office of the Dir. of Foreign Assistance (State/F) was given responsibility for reforming foreign assistance by, among other things, consolidating State and USAID foreign assistance processes. This report: (1) examines State/F's key efforts to consolidate State and USAID foreign assistance processes; and (2) identifies any key challenges that affect State/F's reform of foreign assistance. Illustrations.
Download or read book Foreign Aid Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Aid Reform written by Finn C. Hudson and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. foreign aid programs began in earnest with the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe following World War II. Arguably, the underlying rationale for aid during most of the post-war period was to counter Communist influence in the world. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and particularly since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, aid programs have increasingly been justified within the context of anti-terrorism. Despite changing global conditions and challenges, U.S. foreign aid programs, their organisational structure, and their statutory underpinnings, reflect the Cold War environment in which they originated. This book focuses on the role that foreign assistance can play as a foreign policy tool within the current international environment.
Download or read book Foreign Aid Reform written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans, and Environment and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aid and Reform in Africa written by Shantayanan Devarajan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, when the country enters the second generation of reforms, such as public sector institutional reform, short-term, conditionality-based aid can once again be harmful - by reducing ownership, participation, and sustainability of the reform process."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Foreign Aid Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Views range from general approval of the F process as a first step toward better coordination of aid programs and the need to build on it, to strong criticism of the creation of the F Bureau, its inadequacy in coordinating or reforming much of what is wrong with foreign aid, and the need to replace it with a cabinet-level department of foreign aid. [...] In the FY2009 budget request, the Bush Administration reiterated the importance of the Department of State and U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) by saying that the FY2009 budget "reflects the critical role of the Department of State and the U. S. Agency for International Development in implementing the National Security Strategy. [...] Problems most commonly cited include the lack of a national foreign assistance strategy; failure to elevate the importance and funding of foreign aid to be on par with diplomacy and defense as a foreign policy tool; the FAA's outdated organization and strategic goals of foreign aid programs; a lack of coordination among the large number of cabinet-level departments and agencies involved in foreign [...] They range from a complete replacement of the basic authority of the U. S. government to provide most types of aid, namely, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, to various degrees of restructuring the foreign assistance apparatus and organization within the executive branch, to new ideas and methods of funding, allocating, and evaluating the effect of foreign assistance. [...] Build on the F Process Secretary Rice's Transformational Development created within the State Department the Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance and the Foreign Assistance Framework (FAF, or F process), which is intended to provide coherence to U. S. foreign assistance policy, provide budget transparency, and allow for monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of foreign assistance p.
Download or read book The Case for Reform written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Aid Reform written by U. S. Committee On Foreign Relations and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Foreign Aid Reform: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, February 9, 22 and March 3, 1994 It forces us to think very narrowly in development terms, in a ve stovepipe fashion, rather than strategically about our work, an it confuses the American people, leading them to believe that our foreign assistance programs are just another form of inter national welfare. I think we have a unique opportunity together to fix this prob lem, and to fix it in time to deal with new strategic threats that our country is faced with. I had a discussion yesterday with Sen ator Kassebaum about Robert Kaplan's latest article, The Coming Anarchy, in Atlantic Monthly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book U S Assistance to Africa written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Assistance Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Aid for Development written by George Mavrotas and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and attention from academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Does aid work in promoting growth and reducing poverty in the developing world? Will a new 'big push' approach accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals or will another opportunity be missed? Can the lessons of almost half a century of aid giving be learnt? These are truly important questions in view of the emerging new landscape in foreign aid and recent developments related to the global financial crisis, which are expected to have far reaching implications for both donors and recipients engaged in this area. Against this shifting aid landscape, there is a pressing need to evaluate progress to date and shed new light on emerging issues and agendas. This volume brings together leading aid experts to review the progress achieved so far, identify the challenges ahead, and discuss the emerging policy agenda in foreign aid. A central conclusion of this important and timely volume is that, since development aid remains crucial for many developing countries, a huge effort is needed from both donors and aid recipients to overcome the inefficiencies and make aid work better for poor people. After all, as global citizens, we have a moral obligation to do the best we can to lift people out of poverty in the developing world. The findings of this book will be of considerable interest to professionals and policymakers engaged in policy reforms in foreign aid, and provide an essential one-stop reference for students of development, international finance, and economics.
