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Between Export Promotion and Poverty Reduction : the Foreign Economic Policy of Untying Official Development Assistance.

The end of the Cold War has prompted many donors of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to fundamentally realign their global aid and trade relations. Despite recent progress in untying ODA and a number of related efforts to enhance the overall efficiency of international cooperation with the poor...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Petermann, Jan-Henrik
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer, 2013.
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  • Table of Contents; Figures and Tables; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Tied and Untied Development Assistance:Economic, Political and Legal Dimensions; 2 The Tying of Aid as a Contemporary Phenomenon in Development Economics and Policy: Some Key Definitions and Stylised Facts; 2.1 Terminological and Conceptual Issues: on the Nature and Purpose of Tied and Untied Aid; 2.1.1 Categories and Modalities of Official Aid Flows: a Brief Discussion of Major Analytical Concepts in International Development Finance.
  • 2.2 What Is Aid Tying? Outlining Donors' Strategies between Domestic Export Promotion and International Poverty Reduction2.2.1 Forms of Tying: the Composition of National Aid Budgets; 2.2.2 Motivations of Tying: Economic Calculation and Political Interest; 2.3 Initial Findings and Descriptive Trends: the Aggregate Evolution of Bilateral Untying Behaviour in OECD Countries since the Late 1970s; 2.4 Philosophical and Methodological Foundations: Problematising theContested Subject-matter of International Aid and Trade Relations.
  • 2.4.1 Ideas, Norms and Interests in Global Development Policy:a Framework of Ontological and Epistemological Cross-combinations2.4.2 Metatheoretical Assumptions: Taking the Multidisciplinary Character of Modern Development Studies Seriously; 2.5 Summary; 3 Causes and Consequences of Aid Tying: a Survey of Theoretical Arguments and Empirical Results from Institutional Economics, Foreign Policy Analysis and Development Theory; 3.1 The Allocative View: Determinants of National Tying Behaviour in Domestic Political Systems.
  • 3.1.1 Development Policy as a Struggle for Influence among Rival Interest Groups: the Role of Domestic Stakeholders in Shaping Allocative Decision-making3.1.2 Development Policy as Foreign Policy: Strategic Interests, Commercial Incentives and the Impact of Civilian Power; 3.2 The Distributive View: Reasons for and against Untying Bilateral Aid; 3.2.1 Distorting Effects of Tied Aid in Recipient Countries:a Critical Appraisal of Recent Research in the Fieldof Aid-related Procurement.
  • 3.2.2 Direct, Indirect and 'Feedback' Effects of Tied Aid on the Economicand Political Situation of Donor Countries3.3 Summary; 4 Theoretical Framework: Contending Approaches to the Study of Bilateral Aid Relations in the Post-Cold War International System; 4.1 'Donor Interest' Models of Development Assistance: Foreign Aid as an Instrument to Increase the Political Influence and EconomicWelfare of Industrialised Countries; 4.1.1 Modified Neorealism and the Goal of Maximising National Influence in a Context of International Anarchy.