Download or read book When is Foreign Aid Policy Credible written by Jakob Svensson and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When is Foreign Aid Policy Credible Aid Dependence and Conditionality written by Jakob Svensson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disbursements of foreign aid are guided (in part) by the needs of the poor. Anticipating this, recipients have little incentive to improve the welfare of the poor. In principle, conditionality could partly solve the problem, but this requires a strong commitment ability by the donor. Without such a commitment technology, aid will be allocated (partly) to those in most need, and the recipient governments will exert low effort in alleviating poverty. Contrary to conventional wisdom in the aid literature, we show that tied project aid and delegation of part of the aid budget to an (international) agency with less aversion to poverty improve welfare of the poor in the recipient countries. Keyword: Aid Policy, Credibility, Policy Design.
Download or read book When is Foreign and Policy Credible written by Jakob Svensson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Aid written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five mainrecommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.
Download or read book The Politics of Foreign Aid written by John White and published by London ; Toronto : Bodley Head. This book was released on 1974 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Basic Position Taken In This Book Is That To Seperate Economic From Political Facters In A Way Is Illegitimate, And Will Give At Best Only A Partial View Of The Effects That Different Types Of Aid Will Have In Different Socio-Political Situations. The Book Constitutes An Attempt To Weld Political And Economic Perceptions Of The Processes Involved In The Giving And Receipt Of Aid Into A Single Framework. Without Dustjacket In Very Good Condition.
Download or read book The Global Crisis in Foreign Aid written by Richard Grant and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internal destabilization of many poor countries that accompanied the end of the Cold War and the general failure of structural adjustment programs have changed the nature and allotment of foreign aid around the world. Major donors of foreign aid such as the United States, Japan, and the European Union have been shifting their geographical priorities in allocating aid, as well as their project emphasis, since the end of the Cold War. In addition, multilateral aid agencies—the World Bank, the United Nations, and the International Monetary Fund—are attempting to redress past failures of aid and revamp policies and priorities. Moreover, aid recipients in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet republics, and Central America are establishing priorities of their own and evaluating the success and failure of past aid programs. This volume stands out in the literature on foreign aid because it includes contributions from eight policy representatives from a range of important donor and recipient countries—the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, Bolivia, Egypt, Bangladesh, El Salvador, and Poland. Timely in its assessment of the crisis and the transition in the foreign aid regime, the book provides a view from inside the policy process and imparts a researcher's perspective on the changing priorities for donors and recipients. The wide-ranging essay—most previously unpublished—aim to shed light on the changing political, economic, and regional geographies of aid at the end of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty written by David Brady and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international, inter-disciplinary group of scholars to provide their perspectives on the issue. Contributors engage in discussions about the leading theories and conceptual debates regarding poverty, the most salient topics in poverty research, and the far-reaching consequences of poverty on the individual and societal level.
Download or read book The Development Dance written by Haley J. Swedlund and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign aid is delivered in different ways at different times, and why various approaches prove to be politically unsustainable. She finds that no aid-delivery mechanism has yet resolved commitment problems in the donor-recipient relationship; bargaining compromises break down and have to be renegotiated; frustration grows; new ways of delivering aid gain traction over existing practices; and the dance resumes. Swedlund draws on hundreds of interviews with key decision makers representing both donor agencies and recipient governments, policy and archival documents in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, and an original survey of top-level donor officials working across twenty countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This wealth of data informs Swedlund’s analysis of fads and fashions in the delivery of foreign aid and the interaction between effectiveness and aid delivery. The central message of The Development Dance is that if we want to know whether an aid delivery mechanism is likely to be sustained over the long term, we need to look at whether it induces credible commitments from both donor agencies and recipient governments over the long term.
Download or read book Ideas Interests and Foreign Aid written by A. Maurits van der Veen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do countries give foreign aid? Although many countries have official development assistance programs, this book argues that no two of them see the purpose of these programmes in the same way. Moreover, the way countries frame that purpose has shaped aid policy choices past and present. The author examines how Belgium long gave aid out of a sense of obligation to its former colonies, The Netherlands was more interested in pursuing international influence, Italy has focused on the reputational payoffs of aid flows and Norwegian aid has had strong humanitarian motivations since the beginning. But at no time has a single frame shaped any one country's aid policy exclusively. Instead, analysing half a century of legislative debates on aid in these four countries, this book presents a unique picture both of cross-national and over time patterns in the salience of different aid frames and of varying aid programmes that resulted.
Download or read book Aid Imperium written by Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How US foreign policy affects state repression
Download or read book Wanton Deviltry Or written by and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Charity of Nations written by David Wall and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary research study of the political aspects and economic policy factors which determine the role of developed countries (incl. Role of USA) in extending development aid to the developing countries - covers the structure of western aid programmes, the motives for giving aid, the need for aid, controversies concerning the forms and terms of aid, multilateral aid versus bilateral aid, who should receive aid, etc. Bibliography pp. 169 to 173 and references.
Download or read book Does Foreign Aid Really Work written by Roger C. Riddell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provided for over 60 years, and expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation, foreign aid is now a $100bn business. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? In this first-ever, overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell provides a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all.
Download or read book Development written by Ian Goldin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is development -- How does development happen? -- Why are some countries rich and others poor? -- What can be done to accelerate development? -- The evolution of development aid -- Sustainable development -- Globalization and development -- The future of development.
Download or read book Institutional Analysis of Foreign Aid Policy making written by Jisun Yi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some governments provide less foreign assistance than they originally pledge? This research explores the origins of the 'big-plan-small-action' issue through an institutional analysis. The research dwells particularly on how donors' aid management design (by examining specifically the legal-regulatory rule arrangements for policy formation and implementation) can help explain such problems. The aim is to identify the logic and design of rules for foreign aid policy-making that induce a particular set of incentives and collective actions of state agencies that, in turn, cause a gap between planning and practice in the management of foreign aid. To this end, this research critically reviews Elinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework and comes up with a refined version of it. The fine-tuning of the framework is necessary to take rule institutions more seriously. Given that existing IAD-based empirical analyses in the domain of development cooperation focus on the effects of formal rules on foreign aid policy-making, the earlier application of the framework appears ineffective at acknowledging the broader institutional contexts of policy-making rules and traditions across government units. Considering the unique contexts of emerging/young donor governments, whose policy-making tends to be governed by greater 'discretion (room for judgment)' under a relatively insufficient and abstract set of written rules, the IAD research requires some sophisticated analytical procedures to discern the impacts of various types and layers of policy-making rules on the outcomes. The chosen country case is South Korea (2000-16), which has displayed one of the most severe commitment problems. Korea's public laws and regulations have generally lacked clear logics and definitional details for the management of official development assistance (ODA). In comparison to conventional donor cases, such characteristics have left greater room for undefined policy areas to be decided at the discretion of state executives and bureaucrats. Since the greatest decision-making/corrective powers have been centered on the president, ODA planning at the top policy level has tended to be swung by his/her immediate diplomatic-political needs. Through the two nested cases of knowledge aid and multilateral aid, it is further demonstrated that the presidential ODA initiatives in those sub-policy areas have legally overridden the procedures of reflecting long-term operational considerations. No legal restrictions over the entry and exit of participants have encouraged a high level of opportunism among state agencies to rush into knowledge aid and multilateral 2 cooperation regardless of their organizational talents and traditions. More prominently, KOICA has displayed distinctive strategic behavior in order to reduce its chronic political-financial instability. Korea's substantial gap between annual commitments and disbursements might be a by-product of its ODA policy system, which is rationalized by a loan-grant division. However, this study argues that the commitment problem has fundamentally resulted from a lack of coordinating mechanisms, which were neither effectively put to work by the laws nor took place by the consensual norm within the system. The coordinating/oversight body remained nominal, since it performed the mandate to a limited extent without proper legal power and resource. Considering the national legacy of having had a very centralized public policy-making structure, successful government-wide coordination relied heavily upon the discretion of the president. All things considered, Korea's ODA policy system is a case that fails to encourage reciprocal collective actions among the inherently spat-prone bureaucrats. The research is also useful if one wonders what institutional-structural conditions need to be fixed or re-adjusted to make foreign aid policies more credible and sustainable. The empirical analysis of contexts, two action situations, and outcomes suggest that to properly understand the underlying sources for the expansionary rhetoric and associated incentive problems with a country's development cooperation, due attention ought to be paid to the rule configuration. This will provide an insight into the extent to which hard rules might create room for informal rules to come into play and induce a unique set of incentives, and collective actions, and to end up with undesirable policy outputs.
Download or read book Foreign Aid Reconsidered written by Roger Riddell and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Aid and Development written by Finn Tarp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-08-17 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aid has worked in the past but can be made to work better in the future. This book offers important new research and will appeal to those working in economics, politics and development studies as well as to governmental and aid professionals.
