Essays about: "Official Development Assistance"
Showing result 36 - 40 of 51 essays containing the words Official Development Assistance.
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36. Japan’s Changing Official Development Assistance : How Institutional Reforms Affected the Role of Japan’s Private Sector in ODA Delivery
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : Despite its OECD membership and transformation from aid recipient into a major donor of official development assistance (ODA), Japan has long been criticized for pursuing commercial interests through its infrastructure-focused ODA, which has heavily relied on its own corporate private sector for implementation. Throughout the last two decades, institutional reforms have altered the structure and principles of Japan’s foreign aid; yet not much knowledge has been produced on how these reforms have changed the prominent role of Japan’s private sector in aid implementation. READ MORE
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37. EU Aid and Foreign Direct Investment - A Study of the Effectiveness of EU Sector ODA on FDI in Developing Countries
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Research on aid is continuously exploring new channels to measure its effectiveness on economic development. The Millennium Development Goals have set the standard for aid policy-making and now, when facing deadline, its partakers have to set a new aid policy-agenda. READ MORE
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38. Aid allocation behavior : The impact and progress of aid objectives in the MENA-region
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis provides an empirical indication of how the objectives of official development assistance (ODA), granted by the top five donors, affects the aid policy in the MENA region during the period 1990-2012, and how these objectives have changed during the period 2005-2012. As a first result, alleviation of poverty, commercial interests and the democratic status of the recipient altogether influence aid policy in the region. READ MORE
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39. Rhetoric and Interests within Japanese ODA: the case of assistance to human development in Vietnam
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : In the past few decades, the central topic of targeting human development through aid has been given more importance by both international organizations, recipient and donor countries. One of the goals of this study is to investigate how the mutual cooperation between the inflow of Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA), on one side, and the implementation of the national socio-economic development strategy in Vietnam, on the other, is having effects on human and social development in the latter. READ MORE
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40. The International Science Programme in Bangladesh : A case of self-interest, interdependence or social empowerment?
University essay from Statsvetenskap; Filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to analyze different forms of North-South development assistance with regard to its widespread critique and to examine whether the field of international research capacity building holds alternative development cooperation strategies that have the potential to reconcile some of the criticisms. The focus is on the International Science Programme (ISP) and the empirical research carried out in Bangladesh and Sweden on the ISP-Bangladesh collaboration in the form of semi-structured interviews constitutes the core case study evidence. READ MORE
