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1. 1. Assessing the Value of Development Assistance According to the Recipients: A Case Study of Georgian Organisations’ Perspectives on Estonian Development Assistance

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Hanna Pintson; [2022]
   Keywords : Development assistance value; Recipients’ perspectives; Field-study; Local organisations; Donor evaluation; Estonia-Georgia development cooperation; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Factors contributing to valuable development assistance are often perceived as a "black box," due to heterogeneity of development aid motives. This research brings out that too often, the value of aid is assessed from the perspectives of the donors rather than from its recipients. READ MORE

3. 2. Agricultural official development assistance: an assessment of empirical aid determinants : Trends and shocks of aid activity to agriculture from 2002 to 2018

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Alessandro Giacardi; [2022]
   Keywords : Official development assistance; agriculture; aid; Tobit; panel data; developing economics;

   Abstract : This thesis uses an event approach to understand some under-researched aspects of bilateral development assistance (ODA) in the agricultural sector. The empirical findings on ODA analysis largely agree on some historical explanatory determinants, both political and economic, driving bilateral ODA. READ MORE

4. 3. Achieving aid effectiveness through results-based management: : A chimera?

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Erika Nytting; [2022]
   Keywords : Development aid; Development co-operation; New Public Management; Results Based Management; New Public Service; Management theories; Governance; Results; OECD-DAC; Aid Effectiveness Agenda; Paris Declaration.;

   Abstract : New Public Management has been the prevailing governance model in public sector administration since the late 1980s. In 2005, OECD-DAC member states adopted the resultsbased management model ‘Paris Agenda for Aid Effectiveness’, building on new public management theory and values. READ MORE

5. 4. WOMEN’S POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE PERSPECTIVE. A Quantitative Large-N Study of ODA Recipient Countries

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Ana Japaridze; [2021-11-23]
   Keywords : international assistance; bilateral aid; DAC donors; women’s political empowerment;

   Abstract : Promoting gender equality and closing the persisting gender gap is critical for achieving wide-ranging global objectives and sustainable development for all. One of the key domains in achieving gender equality is women’s political empowerment, which shows the least and slowest progress among all domains, even within the European Union. READ MORE

6. 5. The Impact of Chinese Official Financing on Western Development Assistance

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Valentin Messmer; [2020]
   Keywords : Donor competition; Aid allocation; China; Foreign Aid; Official Development Assistance;

   Abstract : This thesis describes the aid allocation behaviors of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors and their response to the emergence of China as a new donor in the aid landscape. My empirical strategy makes use of an interacted instrumental variable that relies on exogenous variation in the supply of Chinese aid over time resulting from changes in Chinese steel production. READ MORE