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The Political Economy Of Conditional And Unconditional Foreign Assistance
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Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Conditional and Unconditional Foreign Assistance by : Mr.Wolfgang Mayer
Download or read book The Political Economy of Conditional and Unconditional Foreign Assistance written by Mr.Wolfgang Mayer and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving the effectiveness of financial assistance programs is a priority of international financial institutions (IFIs). This paper examines the effectiveness of alternative assistance instruments in a dynamic political economy framework. Economic policies of the receiving country are distorted by the influence of a domestic interest group. The assistance-providing IFI aims at reducing these distortions. The IFI provides assistance either as grants or loans, and either conditionally on reducing policy distortions or unconditionally. The paper shows that, other things constant, one-time grants are more effective than loan rollovers when assistance is unconditional, but that the opposite is true when assistance is conditional.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Conditional and Unconditional Foreign Assistance by : Alexandros Mourmouras
Download or read book The Political Economy of Conditional and Unconditional Foreign Assistance written by Alexandros Mourmouras and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving the effectiveness of financial assistance programs is a priority of international financial institutions (IFIs). This paper examines the effectiveness of alternative assistance instruments in a dynamic political economy framework. Economic policies of the receiving country are distorted by the influence of a domestic interest group. The assistance-providing IFI aims at reducing these distortions. The IFI provides assistance either as grants or loans, and either conditionally on reducing policy distortions or unconditionally. The paper shows that, other things constant, one-time grants are more effective than loan rollovers when assistance is unconditional, but that the opposite is true when assistance is conditional.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Conditional and Unconditional Foreign Assistance by :
Download or read book The Political Economy of Conditional and Unconditional Foreign Assistance written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Economics of International Development: Foreign Aid versus Freedom for the World's Poor by : William Easterly
Download or read book The Economics of International Development: Foreign Aid versus Freedom for the World's Poor written by William Easterly and published by London Publishing Partnership. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign aid and overseas military intervention have been important and controversial political topics for over a decade. The government’s controversial target to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on foreign aid has been widely welcomed by some, but strongly criticised by others. Furthermore, the controversy of the Iraq war rumbles on, even today. This is all happening amongst much instability in many parts of the world. In this short book, a number of authors challenge the assumption that we can bring about economic development and promote liberal democracies through direct foreign intervention – whether economic or military intervention. The lead author, William Easterly, drawing on his wide experience at the World Bank and as an academic, is a renowned sceptic of intervention. He points out that solutions proposed now to the problem of poverty are identical to solutions proposed decades ago – but the plans of rich governments simply do not successfully transform poor countries. Academics Abigail Hall-Blanco and Christian Bjornskov add further context and put forward empirical evidence that backs up Easterly’s argument. Syvlie Aboa-Bradwell draws upon her own practical experience to give examples of how people in poor countries can be assisted to promote their own development. This book is essential reading for students, teachers and all interested in better understanding how to help – and how not to help – the world’s most disadvantaged peoples.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of IMF Conditionality by : Wolfgang Mayer
Download or read book The Political Economy of IMF Conditionality written by Wolfgang Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper models the relationship between an aid-providing international financial institution (IFI) and an aid-receiving government whose economic policy choices are influenced by a domestic interest group. Two assistance schemes are evaluated: conditional aid in which the IFI makes assistance contingent on less-distorting economic policies and unconditional aid which is provided without such conditions. Conditional aid is shown to raise welfare of the receiving country and the world as a whole relative to unconditional aid. The paper also examines how conditional and unconditional aid schemes are influenced by the IFI's opportunity cost of providing assistance and the receiving government's political dependence on a domestic interest group.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Foreign Aid Collection by : Laura P. Seelkopf
Download or read book The Political Economy of Foreign Aid Collection written by Laura P. Seelkopf and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential purpose of foreign aid is to reduce poverty and to help millions of people in the developing world. Yet, already the Marshall Plan demonstrates that donor governments frequently use development assistance as a foreign policy tool in order to promote their interests at the international stage. This ambivalence points to the need for a clear understanding of aid allocation, also as starting point for a better comprehension how aid affects development. Furthermore, the study of foreign aid allocation is not only fundamental for our knowledge on aid effectiveness, but also allows insights into the foreign policy preferences of rich governments toward the developing world. In order to address this, the following thesis highlights the importance of foreign aid as a foreign policy tool and illus- trates in three substantial chapters how developed states use financial assistance to buy policy concessions from developing countries. In this context, the author first contrasts the official aid doctrine with the actual, more hidden agenda over the last six decades, and also emphasizes important av- enues for further research. Second and by building upon existing research, the dissertation shows how donor governments strategically distinguish between con- ditional and unconditional aid to support more democratic developing countries that face political turmoil. Third, the thesis focuses on the public and private good aspects of aid, and explores how foreign aid might be used for access to raw materials - a case with potentially clear negative externalities to other donors. It is argued that donor governments allocate more aid to possible trading partners in mineral ores to secure their companies access to these resources. Against this background, the theoretical and empirical analyses of donors' aid allocation behavior illustrate that donor governments use foreign aid as a policy tool to further their very own interests in developing countries. Yet, this may not necessarily be detrimental to recipient needs. With the increasing international integration and the rise of more, heterogeneous donor countries, recipients become ever more important. Consequently, also the political economy of foreign aid.
Book Synopsis Political Economy of Foreign Aid by : Abdul Khaleque
Download or read book Political Economy of Foreign Aid written by Abdul Khaleque and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World Bank Research Observer by :
Download or read book The World Bank Research Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Foreign Aid by : Paul Mosley
Download or read book The Political Economy of Foreign Aid written by Paul Mosley and published by . This book was released on 1981* with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Foreign Aid Flows by : Jie Sheng Li
Download or read book The Political Economy of Foreign Aid Flows written by Jie Sheng Li and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On the Viability of Conditional Assistance Programs by : Wolfgang Mayer
Download or read book On the Viability of Conditional Assistance Programs written by Wolfgang Mayer and published by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic adjustment and reform programs, including those supported by international financial institutions (IFIs), must cope with informational asymmetries and special interest politics. This presents a particularly serious issue when IFIs make structural economic reforms a condition for providing economic assistance. This paper examines what conditions must be satisfied to make conditional assistance programs viable; that is, to ensure that the assistancereceiving government not only takes the assistance but also implements reforms, without compromising the country's political stability and the IFI's financial integrity. It is pointed out that tightly budgeted conditional assistance programs never bring about reforms, that the IFI's cost of viable programs rises with the dependence of the government on domestic interest groups, and that unconditional assistance might be viable when conditional assistance is not.
Book Synopsis The political economy of foreign aid : a world bank perspective by : Keith Marsden
Download or read book The political economy of foreign aid : a world bank perspective written by Keith Marsden and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transforming Foreign Aid by : Carol Lancaster
Download or read book Transforming Foreign Aid written by Carol Lancaster and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of foreign aid began at the end of World War II and has survived the Cold War. How should the United States now spend its foreign aid to support its interests and values in the new century? In this study, Carol Lancaster takes a fresh look at all US foreign aid programs and asks whether their purposes, organization and management are appropriate to US interests and values in the world of the 21st century. Lancaster finds that US aid in the new century, if it is to be an effective tool of US foreign policy, needs to be transformed. Its purposes need to be refocused and its organization and management brought into line with those purposes. Those purposes include support for peace-making, addressing transnational issues, providing for humane concerns and responding to humanitarian emergencies. Traditional programs aimed at promoting development, democracy and economic and political transitions in former socialist countries will not disappear but they will have less priority than inthe past. These new sets of purposes, promoting both US interests and values abroad, also offer a policy paradigm around which a new political consensus can be created that will support US aid in the 21st century.Transforming Foreign Aid should be of particular interest to professors, students, and researchers of international affairs, foreign policy, political science, and political economy.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Foreign Aid and Growth by : Sultan Mehmood
Download or read book The Political Economy of Foreign Aid and Growth written by Sultan Mehmood and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Foreign Aid by : Péter Tamás Bauer
Download or read book The Political Economy of Foreign Aid written by Péter Tamás Bauer and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Foreign Aid Effectiveness by : Ieva Skarda
Download or read book The Political Economy of Foreign Aid Effectiveness written by Ieva Skarda and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conditional Cash Transfers by : Ariel Fiszbein
Download or read book Conditional Cash Transfers written by Ariel Fiszbein and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. That is, the government only transfers the money to persons who meet certain criteria. These criteria may include enrolling children into public schools, getting regular check-ups at the doctor's office, receiving vaccinations, or the like. They have been hailed as a way of reducing inequality and helping households break out of a vicious cycle whereby poverty is transmitted from one generation to another. Do these and other claims make sense? Are they supported by the available empirical evidence? This volume seeks to answer these and other related questions. Specifically, it lays out a conceptual framework for thinking about the economic rationale for CCTs; it reviews the very rich evidence that has accumulated on CCTs; it discusses how the conceptual framework and the evidence on impacts should inform the design of CCT programs in practice; and it discusses how CCTs fit in the context of broader social policies. The authors show that there is considerable evidence that CCTs have improved the lives of poor people and argue that conditional cash transfers have been an effective way of redistributing income to the poor. They also recognize that even the best-designed and managed CCT cannot fulfill all of the needs of a comprehensive social protection system. They therefore need to be complemented with other interventions, such as workfare or employment programs, and social pensions.
