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Fair, Transparent Foreign Aid

Monday, April 28, 2003. By KIROKU HANAI, The Japan Times. Last September the Japanese government was stunned by a lawsuit filed with the Tokyo District Court by 3,861 residents of Indonesia's Sumatra Island. The plaintiffs said their life had been disrupted by a dam for hydroelectric power and flood control built with Japan's official development assistance. Each resident sought 5 million yen in damages.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20030428kh.htm

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Lobbying by Ethnic Groups and Aid Allocation (PDF)

by Sajal Lahiri and Pascalis Raimondos-Møller (University of Essex & University of Copenhagen). Abstract: We develop a political-economic model of foreign aid allocation. Each ethnic group in the donor country lobbies the government for allocating more aid to its country of origin, and the government accepts contributions from lobby groups. Initial per-capita income of the recipients and those of the ethnic groups are shown to be important determinants of the solution of the political equilibrium. We also examine the effects of changes in the degree of corruption, aid fatigue, and ethnic composition, in the donor country on the allocation of aid.

http://www.econ.ku.dk/epru/files/wp/wp9905.PDF

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NZ Government fails to meet its international obligations

"I am disgusted with the Governments failure to move towards the internationally recognised goal of allocating 0.7% of Gross National Income (GNI) to overseas aid" said the Executive Director of the Council for International Development, Rae Julian. "While the $20 million increase in the overseas aid and development budget is welcome, it does not enhance our reputation as a generous nation," she said.

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/5279CID.html

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Showdown at the World Bank

Robert Wade, January 2001. 'International financial institutions' are more national than they seem. Robert Wade reveals how tightly the US Treasury monitors and controls the World Bank, and how quickly it will stamp out departures from its orthodoxy. In April 2000, as anti-globalization protesters prepared to descend on Washington, the World Bank's former chief economist, Joseph Stiglitz, published an article in the New Republic which began ...

http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR24109.shtml

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Politicisation of Humanitarian Aid and its Consequences for Afghans

Conference Paper Presented by Mohammed Haneef Atmar, Programme Manager, Norwegian Church Aid Afghanistan Programme At Politics & Humanitarian Aid; Debates, Dilemmas & Dissension Conference London, 1 February 2001. "In view of the current humanitarian dilemmas in Afghanistan and with reference to the conference topic, I am going to argue the following four points as to how humanitarianism is politicised and what consequences it has brought to the people of Afghanistan: First, at the risk of stating the obvious, politicisation is the pursuit of political objectives by humanitarian instruments...Second, the principle of impartiality has continued to be a casualty of donor politics of humanitarian needs...Third, punitive humanitarian conditionalities are only punishing the victims...Fourth, key to a change in the current sad state of affairs is establishing systemic accountability."

http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/confpapers/atmar.pdf

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Going the extra mile: how and why creditors should go further with debt reduction for the poorest co

Produced by: European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) (2002) It has now been agreed by most observers that far more resources are needed by heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) and other low income countries (LICs) to escape the debt and poverty trap they are still facing. We have argued that as one component of this, further debt relief needs to be agreed in order to allow scarce domestic resources to be employed for more productive uses such as poverty reducing expenditures and economic development1. Debt reduction alone, however, is unlikely to provide sufficient resources to meet the levels of investment and expenditures necessary to fulfil the most basic needs of many LICs' populations2. In these countries, higher ODA transfers will also be needed. This paper takes as its premise the idea that more external resources are needed for development in LICs and that further debt reduction is one way of delivering more resources.

http://www.eurodad.org/uploadstore/cms/docs/eurodad_goingtheextramile.pdf

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"Official" Development Aid: A Fundamental Failure?

By Rich Thomas, Thursday, April 04, 2002 . Aid to developing nations can take any one of three distinct forms. However, only two of them have been successful. The first is reconstruction aid - the rebuilding of damage created by wars or natural disasters. The second successful form of aid is charitable grants and loans to the developing world for education and health care services. But the third form of aid - for economic development - is another story. It has failed to accelerate income growth among the world's poor wherever it has dominated. (The Globalist)

http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2372

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Results-Based Management and Accountability for Enhanced Aid Effectiveness (PDF)

A Reference Paper for CIDA Officers Engaged in Capacity Development and Program-Based Approaches Such as SWAps (July 30, 2002) by Réal Lavergne, CIDA Policy Branch. This paper was produced as part of a set of studies on the special challenges of managing for results and accountability in CIDA when engaging in capacity development or in program-based approaches to development such as SWAps (Sector-Wide Approaches). This work was part of a joint effort involving CIDA's Performance Review Branch, Policy Branch, the Capacity Development and SWAps networks, and the Pilot Projects group.

http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/INET/IMAGES.NSF/vLUImages/CapacityDevelopment2/$file/enhanced-aid_ref.pdf

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The Cartel of Good Intentions

By William Easterly (Senior fellow of the Center for Global Development and the Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., and former senior advisor of the development research group at the World Bank). The world's richest governments have pledged to boost financial aid to the developing world. So why won't poor nations reap the benefits? Because in the way stands a bloated, unaccountable foreign aid bureaucracy out of touch with sound economics. The solution: Subject the foreign assistance business to the forces of market competition. From Foreign Policy magazine.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_julyaug_2002/Easterly.html

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The Reality of Aid

The Reality of Aid Project exists to promote national and international policies that will contribute to a new and effective strategy for poverty eradication, built on solidarity and equity. Established in 1993, the Reality of Aid is a collaborative, not-for-profit initiative, involving non-governmental organisations from north and south.

http://www.devinit.org/realityofaid/

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Conflict And Aid: Enhancing The Peacebuilding Impact Of International Engagement

(PDF 202K) International Alert's latest report, "Conflict and Aid: Enhancing the Peacebuilding Impact of International Engagement" (by Jonathan Goodhand with Philippa Atkinson) is based on a synthesis of findings from country studies of Sri Lanka, Liberia and Afghanistan and examines whether humanitarian assistance in war zones can support efforts to promote conflict prevention and peacebuilding. The report concludes that humanitarian assistance can complement, though not create, peacebuilding processes, and it provides recommendations for supporting an enabling policy environment for conflict prevention and peacebuilding, increasing the conflict sensitivity of aid donors and enhancing the peacebuilding potential of humanitarian assistance. (International Alert, 2001)

http://www.reliefweb.int/training/IA-Conflict-01oct.pdf

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Vietnam Development Report 2000

The Vietnam Development Report 2000 entitled "Vietnam 2010: Entering the 21st Century" is a three-volume set consisting of an Overview and two parts. Part I of the Report entitled "Pillars of Development" provides a commentary on the emerging draft Ten Year Socio-Economic Development Strategy for 2001-2010. Part II of the Report entitled "Partnerships for Development" addresses this theme of stronger partnerships to help the Government of Vietnam to attain its vision and implement its strategy.

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDS_IBank_Servlet?pcont=details&eid=000094946_00121905570051

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The Effectiveness of European Aid

This is the third occasion on which the International Development Committee has examined the development policies of the European Community and, as our Report will show, we remain exasperated at the lack of progress. In our previous Reports - on the Renegotiation of the Lomé Convention and on the Future of the EC Development Budget - we noted that between 25 and 30 per cent of the budget of the Department for International Development (DFID) is spent by the European Community.

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmintdev/669/66902.htm

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