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Foreign aid and the failure of state building in Haiti under the Duvaliers, Aristide, Préval, and Martelly
Buss, Terry F. - 2013
After receiving at least US$20 billion in aid for reconstruction and development over the past 60 years, Haiti has been and remains a fragile state, one of the worse globally. The reasons for aid failure are legion but mostly relate to highly dysfunctional Haitian regimes, sometimes destructive...
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Donor relations and sovereignty
Flentø, Johnny; Simao, Leonardo Santos - 2020
As a sovereign country, Mozambique initially relied on international solidarity and managed its donor relations well. Donor dependency entailed some loss of agency for the government as it allowed donors to challenge its capacity but never its authority. However, in the last decade, donor...
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Aid and development in Taiwan, South Korea, and South Vietnam
Gray, Kevin J. - 2013
The aim of this paper is to explain the divergent developmental outcomes between South Korea, Taiwan, and South Vietnam …. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan … historical and geopolitical factors explain the greater political stability and absorptive capacity of South Korea and Taiwan. In …
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The effectiveness of foreign aid to women's equality organizations in the MENA : does aid promote women's political participation?
Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2013
In this paper, we address the question of whether official development assistance promotes gender equality in the Middle East and North Africa region by examining the effects of aid to Women's Equality Organizations and Institutions on women's political empowerment, measured by the proportion of...
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The hard challenge of aid co-ordination
Bourguignon, François; Platteau, Jean-Philippe - 2013
Aid co-ordination is a constant theme of discussion among national and international aid agencies in their search for more effectiveness and efficiency in delivering development assistance. This paper seeks to clarify some of the arguments currently made in support of aid co-ordination, and to...
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Aid and environment in Ghana
Twerefou, Daniel Kwabena - 2013
In this paper we discuss aid and the environment in Ghana. Our analysis indicates that expenditure by the government of Ghana has increased consistently since 2000, with seven sectors weakly linked to the environment taking about 78.9 per cent of all government expenditure. Also, the rate of...
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Foreign aid for capacity-building to address climate change : insights and applications
Victor, David G. - 2013
The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...
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Aid and environment in Mozambique
Tomo, Alda; Givá, Nícia - 2014
Mozambique benefits from environmental aid-related funds, but it is still unclear whether donor commitments render directly into projects that are copiously implemented for the purposes stated and what aid flows have actually been doing and are doing in the area of aid and environment in...
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Foreign aid and sustainable fisheries management in sub-Saharan Africa
Akpalu, Wisdom - 2013
The fisheries sector in sub-Saharan Africa has benefitted from high and increasing amounts of foreign aid for over four decades. In the 1990s when evidence emerged that most stocks were overcapitalized and overfished, the effectiveness of fisheries development aid, particularly those directed at...
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The ideal of gender justice and the UNSCR 1325 : two case studies ; Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Hellsten, Sirkku K. - 2013
The paper examines why the efforts to promote gender justice by development aid have not succeeded in dealing with deeply-rooted structural injustices which prevent the realization of social justice and gender equality. The study analyses the implementation of the UNSCR 1325 "Women, Peace, and...
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