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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Bilateral Aid"”.
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The Principles and Reality of Bilateral Aid
This thesis explores how Danish aid policies have been implemented to support poverty alleviation through participatory approaches in bilateral aid. I have chosen to look at bilateral aid, in particular Danish bilateral development assistance to India during a specific period: the mid-1980s to …
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Competition for the urban poor : urban community development (Crossroads) : the complexities of giving and receiving
… of which has been funded and directed through bilateral aid programmes initiated by western governments. It is with those kinds of development intervention that this thesis is concerned. Research, conducted during 1989 and 1990, examined a slice of development activity occurring in an African …
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Mediating transition in Afghanistan, 2001-2004
This dissertation examines international aid in support of Afghan media from fall 2001 to fall 2004 as a case study to interrogate the notion of “media transition” and its underlying assumptions. It examines how development organizations such as the United Nations, bilateral aid agencies such as …
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O impacto da política de ajuda alimentar internacional dos Estados Unidos na cooperação multilateral do Programa Mundial de Alimentos
… of state actors in the international food aid regime; and the inability of USA to continue shouldering alone, the international food aid (main tool to combat the hunger in the world). The multilateralism, therefore, has proved the ideal way to avoid disadvantageous results. For the USA, the …
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AID AND INFLUENCE: THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ON U.S. INTERESTS IN LATIN AMERICA
… has proposed major cuts to the foreign aid budget. Many experts worry that large cuts could diminish U.S. influence and harm bilateral partnerships. Accordingly, the two case studies contained in this thesis assessed the impact of U.S. bilateral aid on influence in LATAM during the 1950s …
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An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Aid Heterogeneity According to Donors for Pakistan
… of three chapters in determining the effect of bilateral foreign assistance on the economy of Pakistan. The effect of foreign assistance will be measured in terms of public expenditure and revenue. The factors associated in the provision of aid commitments and disbursements, and the effect of …
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The Arab Gulf development funds: an analysis of their legal structure and operations
This study examines three bilateral aid funds : the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, (KFAED), the Abu Dhabi Fund for Arab Economic Development, (ADFAED), and the Saudi Fund for Development, (SFD), which were established in 1961, 1971 and 1974 respectively. It also analyses the …
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International project finance : the case of Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
… questions addressed are whether its concessional aid is allocated according to Donor Interest (DI) or Recipient Needs (RN), what precisely is the grant element in KFAED loans, whether this grant allocation is consistent with the fund's stated policy and if it is linked to one or more of the …
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From Development Aid to Development Partnerships – the End of Coloniality? Critical discourse analysis of DFID's development partnership with South Africa
Development aid discourses have been criticised for perpetuating othering and coloniality. The discourses have been argued to produce and reproduce conceptual creations of a distinguishable 'us' and 'them' through binaries of 'developed' and 'underdeveloped', and they have been stated to uphold …
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A case study of distance education and development in Jamaica : a study of three distance education organisations and their contribution to development
… as teachers, administrators, politicians, aid negotiators, volunteers and close observers. A qualitative analysis also helped in the understanding of the structure and functions of the organisations studied. Because benefits can accrue to a society in terms of growth in its Gross National …
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Essays on foreign aid volatility
Existing explanations for why foreign aid can fail to achieve its objectives tend to highlight issues that have roots in recipient countries, and scholars have documented at length the perverse mechanisms through which recipient governments can misappropriate and misuse development assistance. In …