Aid: Understanding International Development CooperationThis study on international development cooperation is a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of aid, including the impact of the end of the Cold War. It reviews the motives, goals, strategies and practices of donor agencies and NGOs in North and South; examines emergency relief and humanitarian assistance as new modes of intervention; analyses the international debates on aid impact and effectiveness; and shows that aid has proved more valuable in recipient countries with coherent development policies and strong political institutions. The authors argue that there is no better alternative to taxpayer-financed aid as a mechanism for promoting greater equality. They present ideas for making aid more effective and efficient, and examine new modes of financing development and of international cooperation. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Motives and Interests | 7 |
Political and economic motives and interests 12 Environmental | 16 |
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activities actors administration agencies aid forms aid strategies aid's analyses areas Bangladesh Bank's bilateral aid bilateral donors capacity capital cent Chapter civil society Cold War conflict contribute DAC countries Danida Danish demands democratization Denmark developing countries development aid development assistance development banks development cooperation development goals discussed donor countries economic growth effective emergency relief emphasis especially evaluation example financing focus foreign aid formulated funds global humanitarian assistance IFRC impact implementation important increased industrial countries institutions integration interests international development interventions investments involved Lomé low-income countries ment multilateral aid multilateral development banks multilateral organizations NGOs Nordic countries OECD/DAC official aid organizations participation partners performance-based aid political poor poverty reduction priorities problems processes projects promote recipient countries reform relation role social South South Asia structural adjustment programmes sub-Saharan Africa target group transfers UN's UNDP UNICEF World Bank