Essays about: "bilateral aid"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 40 essays containing the words bilateral aid.

1. 26. 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 sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Likki-Lee Pitzen; [2015]
   Keywords : Official Development Assistance; Foreign aid; Japanese ODA; Bilateral aid; Aid implementation; Private sector; Reform; Japan; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : 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

3. 27. Trade as a Motivation in Aid Allocation as the Economy of Donor Countries Fluctuates

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Robin Berglund; Xiao-Min Ruan; [2014]
   Keywords : foreign aid; aid allocation; trade; economic fluctuations;

   Abstract : In this paper we examine whether foreign aid commitments to closer trading partners are less sensitive to economic fluctuations in the donor country. We argue that this is the case. If donors act in their own self-interest, they will prioritize aid to closer trading partners in economic difficult times, as a means to keep the exports up. READ MORE

4. 28. China-Africa Economic Cooperation: Development Assistance and Economic Interests

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Lloyd Zinyemba; [2012]
   Keywords : Business and Economics;

   Abstract : There has been an increasing engagement between China and Africa in recent years as reflected by the level of aid, trade and investment flows. Building on the data available on China’s development assistance flows into Africa together with China’s FDI stocks as a ‘strategic interest variable’ gives an insight into the considerations given to the allocation of development financing. READ MORE

5. 29. Does Swedish aid help or hinder bilateral trade : An empirical study on the effect of Official Development Assistance and Aid for Trade

   University essay from Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Louise Skärvall; [2012]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : A growing consensus regarding the positive benefits of trade has during the last decades attracted actors from the developing world to enter the world market.  Official Development Assistance (ODA) and more especially Aid for Trade (AfT) have thus come to play an important role in development strategies. READ MORE

6. 30. Aid, Democracy, and the Magic Wand of Accountability

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Fredrik Bruhn; [2012]
   Keywords : accountability; democracy assistance; aid effectiveness; democratisation; aid; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Two trends can be identified within the current development assistance discourse: the pursuit of aid effectiveness, and the support for democratic development, both of which emphasize the importance of accountability. By adopting a critical approach to the ‘buzzword’ accountability, this study explores how a number of bilateral donors conceptualize and understand the notion of accountability in the two contexts of the aid effectiveness paradigm and democracy assistance. READ MORE