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The Republic of China (ROC) became a foreign aid donor in the early 1960s, when it was still a poor and developing country itself. Yet, within a decade it was providing agricultural and technical assistance to some fourty countries in Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. The essay addresses the issue of foreign aid in ROC's foreign relations. (DÜI-Sen)

"Foreign Aid" published on by Oxford University Press.

Intro -- FOREIGN AID: ANALYSES OF EFFICIENCY, EFFECTIVENESS AND DONOR COORDINATION -- FOREIGN AID: ANALYSES OF EFFICIENCY, EFFECTIVENESS AND DONOR COORDINATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 DOES FOREIGN AID WORK? EFFORTS TO EVALUATE U.S. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- DOES AID WORK? A BRIEF SUMMARY -- IMPACT AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS -- HISTORY OF U.S. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE EVALUATION -- EVALUATION CHALLENGES -- Mixed Objective -- Funding and Personnel Constraints -- Emphasis on Accountability of Funds -- Methodological Challenges -- Compressed Timelines -- Country Ownership and Donor Coordination -- Security -- Agency and Personal Incentives -- APPLYING EVALUATION FINDINGS TO POLICY -- CURRENT AGENCY EVALUATION POLICIES -- ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- Reform Authorization Legislation -- Appropriations for Enhanced Evaluation -- Impact of Evidence Based Approach on Congressional Priorities -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A. SELECT ASPECTS OF CURRENT USAID, STATE DEPARTMENT, AND MCC EVALUATION POLICIES -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 FOREIGN AID: INTERNATIONAL DONOR COORDINATION OF DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE -- WHY COORDINATE? -- WHY NOT COORDINATE? -- INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR DONOR COORDINATION -- WPAE High Level Forums -- Rome High Level Forum on Donor Harmonization -- Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness -- Accra Agenda for Action -- Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation -- The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation -- IMPLEMENTING DONOR COORDINATION -- Global Mechanisms -- Use of Multilateral Organizations -- Joint Assistance Strategies -- Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAps) -- Data Sharing -- U.S.-Specific Mechanisms for Donor Coordination -- USAID Guidance -- USAID Coordination Officers -- Coordinators of Cross-Cutting Initiatives

Several projections were made during and after the Global financial crises of 2007-2009 about the continuity of foreign aid to Africa.Some opined that the financial crises will reach Sub Saharan Africa via the decline of foreign aid as well as other financial transfers such as remittances and Foreign Direct Investment. It is on this premise that this study examined the flow of foreign aid to Africa in an effort to appreciate the trend before, during and after the Global financial crisis. The study used trend charts and the Bai-Perron multiple structural break test as well as the Chow test to analyse data sourced from the World Bank Indicators. The results show that, though Overall ODA dropped in 2007, it consistently increased up to 2013 by 25%. The structural break test shows that the trend of ODA has not significantly changed as a result of the Global financial crisis for; low, lower middle, higher middle and Sub Saharan countries as a whole. The result further shows that ODA to low income countries were higher than those of lower middle income countries which was equally higher than higher middle income countries. ODA to the agricultural, educational and economic infrastructural sector all increased after 2009. It is only ODA to the health sector that dropped significantly. The study concludes that Foreign aid to Africa has not declined, but rather improved in most cases. It therefore commends the efforts of aid donors and emphasizes the complementing role of foreign aid to Africa.

Consequences of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law; challenges for the new administration.