International development assistance: policy drivers and performance
In: EADI global development series
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In: Routledge Research EADI Studies in Development
Foreign aid has increasingly become subject to political conditionality. In the 1980s some institutions made aid dependent upon the recipient countries' economic policy reforms. Market liberalisation was the primary instrument and objective. In the 1990s such conditionality was brought one step further; aid was now linked to political reforms, affecting recipient countries' governing systems, requiring democracy, human rights and 'good governance'. This volume looks at these developments and considers the conditionality policies of several European aid donors. Such policies are also considered
The UN and Development provides the first comprehensive overview of the development policies and activities of the United Nations system from the late 1940s to the present. With an explicit focus on the history of the ideas that have been generated, institutionalized, and implemented by UN organizations, this book examines changing trends in development paradigms from the concept of technical assistance to underdeveloped countries, as they were called in the late 1940s, to development cooperation in the 21st century. Olav Stokke traces this fascinating story and demonstrates the UN's essential role and its future challenges in aiding the least developed countries and the globe's billion poorest inhabitants.
In: United Nations intellectual history project
The UN and Development provides the first comprehensive overview of the development policies and activities of the United Nations system from the late 1940s to the present. With an explicit focus on the history of the ideas that have been generated, institutionalized, and implemented by UN organizations, this book examines changing trends in development paradigms from the concept of technical assistance to underdeveloped countries, as they were called in the late 1940s, to development cooperation in the 21st century. Olav Stokke traces this fascinating story and demonstrates the UN's essential role and its future challenges in aiding the least developed countries and the globe's billion poorest inhabitants.
World Affairs Online
In: EADI book series 12
In: Norwegian foreign policy studies 75
World Affairs Online
In: EADI book series 7
In: Norwegian foreign policy studies 63
In: Norwegian foreign policy studies no. 45
In: Nordiska Afrikainstitutets biståndsstudier 1
In: Norwegian foreign policy studies 12
In: Internasjonal politikk, Volume 73, Issue 2
ISSN: 1891-1757
In: Internasjonal politikk, Volume 72, Issue 2, p. 231-259
ISSN: 1891-1757
In: Internasjonal politikk, Volume 68, Issue 4, p. 495-568
ISSN: 1891-1757
In: Internasjonal politikk, Volume 68, Issue 4, p. 495-570
ISSN: 0020-577X
In: Forum for development studies, Volume 35, Issue 2, p. 155-156
ISSN: 0803-9410