Essays about: "Official Development Assistance"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 51 essays containing the words Official Development Assistance.
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21. Are we Making Promises without Proof? : An empirical analysis of the impacts that democracy support and aid targeting education have on democratization
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : As democracy promotion has become an increasingly important aspect on the agenda of foreign aid donors, and since such prioritization of funding comes at the expense of other development areas, it is arguably of interest for donors as well as researchers to investigate its actual impact on democratization. This study endeavors to examine the influence of two types of foreign assistance that could potentially contribute to a democratic development, directlythrough democracy support and indirectly through aid focused on education. READ MORE
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22. The Impact of Chinese Official Financing on Western Development Assistance
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : 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
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23. Justifying Japan’s Securitized ODA
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development StudiesAbstract : While the global foreign aid trend has shifted closer to security, the Development Assistance Committee prohibits donor countries from giving aid for military purposes or the donor countries’ security interests. Many scholars observed that several projects of Japan’s Official Development Assistance are, to a large extent, military aid or driven by national interests. READ MORE
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24. "Gender equality is still a vision, not a reality" : A case study on the use of gender mainstreaming in SIDA's assistance in climate projects in Bangladesh
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change and as one of the world's most densely populated countries, the consequences are devastating for millions of people, not least for women who have limited mobility in a strong patriarchal society like Bangladesh (Momtaz, Shameem, 2015). Sweden has a well-known development cooperation with the country that has lasted for several decades. READ MORE
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25. Do political instiutions affact the impact of Official Development Assistance success on poverty reduction?
University essay from Jönköping University/IHH, NationalekonomiAbstract : The United Nations, in their 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, states that “eradicatingpoverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest globalchallenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development”. Hence, as it is aglobal challenge, we have decided to investigate how can the efforts to address this issue withofficial development assistance could be facilitated or mitigated by democracy and stronginstitutions. READ MORE