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Folster, Natalie. "Systemic constraints on aid policy and aid outcomes : the history of Canadian official development assistance to Tanzania." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1670/.
Full textWeber, Janice Minna. "The agency for international development's (AID) urban development policy and its application." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78059.
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Stephens, Barbara Jean. "International Development Non-Government Organisations and Partnership." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7877.
Full textBROUSE, KIRSTEN. "Adaptive Aid in Haiti? How Aid Organizations Learn and Adapt in Fragile States." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34420.
Full textSigrist, Adam C. "International Development: Not-So-Simple Business." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1304535890.
Full textYoder, Celeste J. "The Role of Aid Providers in the Development of South Sudan." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243351292.
Full textMoncrieff, Richard. "French development aid and the reforms of 1998-2002." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/46178/.
Full textConway, Timothy Hugh. "Poverty, participation and programmes : international aid and rural development in Cambodia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325138.
Full textBlemings, Travis I. "The Politics of Development Aid: Understanding the Lending Practices of the World Bank Group." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/454225.
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This study examines variations in the lending strategies of the four main agencies of the World Bank. Countries with similar basic development and demographic attributes often receive very different amounts of financial support from the different agencies of the World Bank. Utilizing regression analysis of panel-data covering the years between 1990 through 2011, the study finds that variation in the allocation of development aid both within and between the different World Bank agencies (IBRD, IDA, IFC, and MIGA) do not generally reflect patterns in objective indicators of economic need or institutional quality among recipients. Rather, statistical analysis shows that World Bank aid is positively correlated with several measures of donor influence. Utilizing a multi-donor model of political influence, the study finds evidence that the Bank’s top donors, countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan disproportionately influence the Bank to lend in ways that support their foreign policy interests. Countries with close economic, political, and geostrategic ties to powerful donors tend to receive more aid on average than their less well-connected peers. The data show that the Bank often lends in ways that contradict its own lending criteria. Despite the Bank’s explicit emphasis on economic need and institutional quality, the agencies of the World Bank often provide greater amounts of assistance to those with less need and poor quality governance. The study has implications for the study of international organizations, institutional design, and how donor influence at the World Bank is mediated by variations in internal agency structures.
Temple University--Theses
MacKay, Edward Grant. "CIDA and the aid-trade linkage." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26873.
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Soe, Sai Kyi Zin. "Influence of Donor Aid Policy on Disability Inclusion in Myanmar." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20373.
Full textMarkgraf, Claire Teresa McCarville. "Governance and aid allocation in the International Development Association (IDA) : revisiting assessing aid in the twenty-first century." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90210.
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This paper examines the relationship between governance and the foreign aid allocation of a World Bank agency, the International Development Association. In particular, the study investigates whether this major multilateral program's financial support for the development of the world's poorest countries consistently prioritizes good governance. A new dataset from the first decade of the twenty-first century, 2003-12, is used in three econometric estimation models to determine whether the quality of governance in recipient countries has had implications for aid allocation decisions. As in much of the literature in this area, the results are mixed. This finding itself raises important questions both about the relevance of a country's governance to aid allocation decisions and about the usefulness of good governance as a metric by which aid organizations are judged.
by Claire Teresa McCarville Markgraf.
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Marandet, Elodie. "Governing through freedom, ruling at a distance : neoliberal governmentality and the new aid architecture in the AIDS response in Malawi." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7657.
Full textJohnson, Richard Boyd. "World view and international development : a critical study of the idea of progress in the development work of World Vision Tanzania." Thesis, Open University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266416.
Full textZeghdoudi-Durand, Zehor. "Le partenariat en droit international du développement." Thesis, Avignon, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AVIG2035/document.
Full textAs regards development aid the law is as creative as fertile : economic and social rights, human rights, sustainable development, etc. ; so many matters put in balance with the market law, the competition on behalf of a general economic interest. The first option of this study is to consider the legal mechanisms peculiar to the development aid through these two ends, at first sight paradoxical/antinomical : the economic efficiency and the human development. The second is to bound the field of research to the conventional material in order to appreciate the only process partnership which, from the international cooperation point of view, has not delivered yet all his potential. The interest of this international cooperation pattern based on the ”Partnership” remains still secondary, compared with the nature of the parties (public and private) which bind themselves, the nature of the rights (political, economical and social) that it sets out to conciliate, and finally, the bonds of profitability as well as humanism (the market of human development) it imposes upon its partners. Thus, the purpose of this research is indeed, to question the legal effects of such partnerships, but also, to regard the contract of public procurements of Development Aid, as potentially a growth market of an new model cooperation to be used for resorb inequalities of development between states
Duncan, Andrew A. "A Participatory Evaluation of a Development NGO in Nicaragua." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30782.
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Diko, Stephen K. "Setting a New International Development Agenda for West African Countries after 2015 – Moving Beyond the Millenium Development Goals." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397467782.
Full textSaleh, Mustafa Jamal. "Foreign aid efficiency in Jordan during the three cycles of the five year development plan ( 1976-1990)." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.331983.
Full textColl, Morell Josep Maria. "Aid Valuenomics: The Institutionalization of the Linkages among Culture, Entrepreneurship and Endogenous Development. A New Governance of an Innovative International Aid System." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/96377.
Full textSixty years of development aid have not worked out to alleviate poverty in least developed countries as expected. The over ambitious official rhetoric of aid donors has been effective in creating an aid market that is fuelled by impurely altruistic motivations that seek to accomplish self-‐interested political and economic goals of nations-‐states in its foreign policy domain. In the attempt to deliver aid flows to partner countries in the South, aid agencies’ objective function has focused to maximize its budget rather than the service. The incentives to make aid more effective are not in place and the forces that push new donors to enter the value chain do not capture the theoretical beneficiaries of the system, the poor. However, new emerging drivers from the South and a sample of market-‐oriented initiatives are paving the way for a new order of the current international aid architecture. The European Union’s Member States combine part of its share to the European Commission to jointly state and deliver development aid to third countries. As a result, the European Commission has converted into one of the biggest actors and donor agencies in allocating resources for the development of low-‐income countries. However, the EC development policy is an instrument of the overall EC foreign policy, which hinges on the promotion of economic integration through trade liberalization. Instead of adopting a single, tailored development cooperation approach to developing countries, the EC follows a standard model of cooperation that is characterized by an asymmetric paternalistic relationship in which the donor seeks to maximize its interest and impose its supply-‐driven and exogenous approach. Tanzania is one of the donor darlings in Africa. This country is often held as an example of good aid coordination and ownership between the donor community and the recipient government. Large amounts of aid flows have contributed to generate an environment of macroeconomic stability and long-‐sustained economic growth. However, poverty rates have only fallen slightly, much lesser than expected and corruption is rampant. The EC, along with her development partners, does not prioritize the needs of the poor majority, which mostly live and work in the rural sector. The Government, instead of approaching to the local intended beneficiaries of its development programs, has fallen to the promising rewards of adopting the leading donor-‐driven approach of its development partners and its policy recipes. Therefore, the gap between the donors-‐recipient and the poor is even bigger. The myth of genuine ownership is just an utopia. The small-‐scale entrepreneurs of Dodoma region, a traditional semi-‐arid rural area in the inland of Tanzania, struggle to make their living in a context affected by unstable shortage of rainfall, lack of credit, poor market infrastructure and low entrepreneurial skills. Despite the diversity and quantity of formal institutions that work for the development of the area, semi-‐isolated informal social groups do not maintain systematic relations of cooperation with them. Nevertheless, these communities share a value system that has the potential to absorb new knowledge and technology innovations throughout the activation of motivational values. The proper motivation of local entrepreneurs must follow a lateral communication approach of knowledge transfers within the generation of an innovation environment that fosters a learning economy. The inclusion of the local value system renders relevant implications for economic development theories and development policies, which have rather focused on exogenous variables. Instead, the Endogenous Development Model claims that cultural values are a critical factor for boosting entrepreneurship and unleashing economic development.
McGarrity, Andrew. "The George W. Bush Administration's aid strategy and its impact on development in Sub-Saharan Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14607.
Full textMuch of Sub-Saharan Africa economically and democratically lags behind the rest of the world. Many wealthy countries have worked to speed up Africa's development through the use of foreign aid. The George W. Bush Administration utilized aid in their efforts to help eliminate poverty and deepen democracy. They disbursed aid through a novel government agency named the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). This thesis gauges the usefulness of the MCC and measures its impact on economic and democratic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. To provide an assessment of the MCC, I examine the association between foreign aid disbursed by the MCC and resulting economic and democratic development. The conclusions are drawn by employing a quantitative methodology using difference of means analysis and bivariate analysis. The empirical research suggests that aid disbursed through the MCC is producing only slight economic and democratic growth. I conclude the study with a case study that corroborates the empirical findings. This study brings into question the general effectiveness of foreign aid and further suggests that Africa may need another solution to underdevelopment that may go beyond the reach of aid planners.
Teka, Tegegne. "International non-governmental organisations in rural development in Ethiopia : the case of Wolaita province." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295385.
Full textCampbell, Michelle. "Communicaiton for Poverty Alleviation: How Aid and Development Agencies in New Zealand View the Relationships Between Communication and Development." The University of Waikato, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2768.
Full textRatcliff, Catherine Mary. "Seeing Africa : construction of Africa and international development in Soviet and Russian public discourse : freedom as development?" Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25807.
Full textLövestam, Ida. "Power structures in local and international development aid : A case study of two organizations working in Peru." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för livsvetenskaper, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-4790.
Full textBreslin, Randal Scott. "Exploring the professional journeys of exemplary expatriate field leaders in the international aid sector : a collective case study." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25495.
Full textMallipeddi, Ravi Kanth. "Understanding the roles of partners in partnerships funded by the global fund." Thesis, [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2598.
Full textcom, ssigler227@gmail, and Steven Matthew Sigler. "Renewing Societies: Interculturalism and the Creative Sojourner." Murdoch University, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20100203.142632.
Full textDolan, Carrie. "Health Aid in Africa: Placement, Service Utilization, and Benefit." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4932.
Full textSimelane, Batsabile Nokulunga. "Socio-economic impacts of development initiatives led by international aid agencies in the local community of Msunduza." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020818.
Full textFarrow, Richard Michael. "International responses to the Palestinian refugee crisis : conflict over aid, resettlement and development 1949-53." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2005. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.668154.
Full textSalm, Christian. "Transnational socialist networks in the 1970s : the cases of European Community development aid and southern enlargement." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2013. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/transnational-socialist-networks-in-the-1970s(b40aa651-1400-44a9-b69b-211f3597fa80).html.
Full textAtabong, Etoke Andrew. "Efficient mechanisms for the delivery of development aid : a case study of The South East Consortium for International Development (SECID)." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30315.
Full textDever, Christopher James. "A Broker of International Reconciliation: UNICEF Through the Korean and Vietnam Wars." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/104971.
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This paper represents original research in the UNICEF archives and illuminates the case study of this particular intergovernmental organization (IGO) during the period of the Korean War through the Vietnam War (1948-1975). It investigates the complex issues raised by the intersection of power politics and humanitarian impartiality. It argues that historians must take intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) seriously in their attempt to accurately interpret the historical record. The story of UNICEF during the Korean War charts a familiar narrative where superpower rivalries served to derail the good intentions of this purportedly impartial intergovernmental organization. However, the case study of UNICEF in Vietnam is a surprising example of the rising influence and impact of IGOs and INGOs on the international scene. By balancing its associations across the East-West divide and riding a wave of increasingly international sentiment worldwide, UNICEF navigated a treacherous political arena and realized new heights of its goal of impartiality even before the cessation of war in Vietnam. In a dramatic show of their expanding influence, UNICEF played a pivotal role in improving relations between the United Nations and North Vietnam.
Temple University--Theses
Bendroth, Karl. "Swedish Development Assistance Policy 1990- 2012 : How has it changed?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-31369.
Full textWeiss, John A. "The Aid paradigm for poverty reduction: Does it make sense?" Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the ODI, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2810.
Full textWhilst thinking on economic policy for development has undergone many shifts with the perceived weak results of earlier adjustment reforms a new donor consensus has emerged based around the central themes of economic growth, good governance and social development. This paper examines the logic behind this new Aid paradigm and discusses the empirical evidence to support it. A nuanced story is revealed with country circumstances playing a critical role and particular interventions varying in impact across countries. For example, growth does not always lead to gains for the poor that match the national average; public expenditure needs to be targeted to achieve social development but effective targeting is difficult; governance reform may be critical but there is no simple governance blueprint and the corruption-growth association need not always be negative.
Lahdenperä, Jori, and Shehzad Humayoun. "The International Monetary Fund (IMF) & World BankStructural Adjustment Programs : Review study of adjustment-aid theory." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-9978.
Full textMonetary funding to developing countries is today accompanied by so called “Structural Adjustment Programs” (SAPs) imposed by the IMF and the World Bank, consisting of economical policy reforms that the countries have to undergo in order to be eligible for loans. The impact of these adjustment loans is widely criticized due to the negative effects observed. Our purpose is to investigate in depth why these adjustment programs have not delivered the expected results. We’ve found that there exist some undesirable consequences following SAP implementation that has a hindering effect on growth. These, combined with the complicate context in which the IMF and World Bank operates can be seen as the explanation for the adversity experienced.
Deerfield, Amanda. "A Study of Corruption, Foreign Aid, and Economic Growth." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/msppa_etds/5.
Full textDeWaard, Chad. "Official development assistance unmasked : theoretical models of international relations and the determinants of American, German, and Swedish aid /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1147195581&sid=13&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textGraham, Vaughn Fitzgerald. "The ownership of official development assistance in the security and justice sector in Jamaica 2005-2013 : how the nature of sectoral development policy making reflects and challenges international aid policy." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5465/.
Full textDurr, Samantha J. "A Brief History of United States Foreign Development Assistance to Benin, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Senegal Since 2000." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1493389407692537.
Full textSchwebel, Amy Elizabeth. "Improving the impact of Australian aid: the role of AusAID's Office of Development Effectiveness." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/6732.
Full textThe release of the first Annual Review of Development Effectiveness provided the impetus to investigate whether the newly formed Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) will introduce changes that will improve Australia’s approach to aid. Framed within national interest, development and aid literature, this research analyses what limitations, if any, there are to reform of aid policies and practices in Australia.
The thesis concludes that the potential for the ODE to significantly improve the effectiveness of Australia aid is limited. It is one of many voices – including the powerful national interest agenda furthered by foreign policymakers – shaping Australian aid policy and practice. However, the furthering of Australian national interest – narrowly defined as security and economic considerations – through the aid program is at the expense of poverty alleviation objectives. This negatively affects how the development ‘problem’ is framed and thus the focus of aid policy. Furthermore, efforts to prioritise national interest considerations undermine the adoption of ‘good’ practice essential for sustainable development.
This is a political reality that is unlikely to change. Thus, the role of the ODE is to provide recommendations within this restricted framework. However, it is only through scrutiny, discussion and debate that the discrepancy between ‘good development’ in theory and in practice can be narrowed. This should also be the role of the ODE.
Bene, Charmaine B. "Donor Engagement of Diasporas: Public-Private Partnerships Towards Development Effectiveness?" Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24014.
Full textAirey, Siobhán. "Auras of Legality - The Jurisdiction and Governance Signature of the International Governance of Official Development Assistance." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40067.
Full textDaSilva, Christian. "Youth Agency and the Efficacy of Basic Education in Tanzania: An Inquiry into Post-primary School Structuration." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33019.
Full textRusson, Jo-Ann Katherine. "Addressing poverty alleviation : the UK government-MNC interface in Sub-Saharan Africa." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.677283.
Full textThusi, Thokozani. "Mission impossible? Linking humanitarian assistance and development aid in political emergencies in Southern Africa: The case of Mozambique between 1975-1995." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2001. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
Full textMitchell, John "David" F. "NGO insecurity in high-risk conflict zones: the politicization of aid and its impact on “humanitarian space”." Diss., Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34145.
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Attacks against nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in high-risk conflict zones have increased exponentially over the last two decades. However, the few existing empirical studies on NGO insecurity have tended to focus on external factors influencing attacks, with little attention paid to the actions of aid workers themselves. To fill this gap, this dissertation theorizes that aid workers may have contributed to their own insecurity by engaging in greater political action. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used to assess the impact of political activity by NGOs on the insecurity of aid workers. The quantitative analyses test the theory at two levels. The first is a large-N country-level analysis of 117 nations from 1999 to 2015 using panel corrected standard errors. The second is a subnational-level statistical analysis of four case studies: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Colombia from 2000 to 2014. Both the country- and provincial- level analyses show that the magnitude of aid tends to be a significant determinant of aid worker security. The qualitative methods of “structured-focused comparison” and “process tracing” are used to analyze the four cases. Results show that aid workers are most likely to be victims of politically-motivated attacks while in-transit. Consistent with the quantitative findings, it is speculated that if workers are engaged in a large-scale project over an extended period of time, attackers will be able to monitor their daily activities and routines closely, making it easier to orchestrate a successful ambush. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that political statements made by NGOs—regardless of their sectors of activity—have increased insecurity for the broader aid community. These results dispel the myth that humanitarian activity has historically been independent, impartial, and neutral. Several NGOs have relied on this false assumption for security, believing that adherence to core principles has contributed to “humanitarian space.” The results also dispel the popular NGO assumption that targeted attacks are not official tactics of organized militants, but rather the result of criminality or mistaken identity. In fact, the overwhelming majority of aid workers attacked in high-risk conflict zones have been targeted by political actors.
Jones, Raymond Peter. "The international aid approach to educational planning : a case study of the planning and development of secondary education in Swaziland." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1988. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019672/.
Full textHendy, A. O. A. "An approach to sustainable construction in post-disaster contexts : with specific reference to the Marmara region of Turkey." Thesis, Coventry University, 2007. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/f73e27ff-553b-4825-bf15-466ff4b3664f/1.
Full textGrane, Douglas Michael. ""Indicatorism": the context, politics and effects of monitoring and evaluation in the Kenya education sector support program." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4987.
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