Columbia: External Assistance and Political Change
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 26
ISSN: 0043-4078
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In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 26
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: Policing Afghanistan, S. 47-54
In: Latin American perspectives: a journal on capitalism and socialism, Band 12, S. 39-67
ISSN: 0094-582X
Nature and extent of Nicaraguan external dependence, changing sources and levels of foreign economic assistance since 1979, and United States economic pressure on Nicaragua.
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 157-167
ISSN: 2052-465X
In: Latin American perspectives, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 39-68
ISSN: 1552-678X
In: Latin American perspectives: a journal on capitalism and socialism, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 39-67
ISSN: 0094-582X
Nicaragua is being subjected to US economic aggression aimed at depriving it of international assistance. The vulnerability of Nicaragua has been determined largely by its previous economic dependence trade with the US, by extensive short-term US financing of Nicaragua's chronic external imbalance prior to 1979, and by concessional assistance from the US for development programs
World Affairs Online
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 101-114
ISSN: 1469-7777
The situation of African states as they enter the 1990s is generally considered to be desperate. Extreme weakness in a number of forms characterises their politics, while their economies are either stagnant or deteriorating. It is not clear what resources are relevant to solving these problems, nor how they will be acquired, although increased external assistance obviously will be needed.
In: Public administration and development: the international journal of management research and practice, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 89-96
ISSN: 0271-2075
A paradigm linking public sector decentralisation reforms to poverty reduction via improved local governance and development has provided the rationale for donor support of decentralisation and parallel efforts to build local government capacity. The article briefly considers the paradigm and reviews modalities of external aid to decentralisation, highlighting key limitations and contradictions. In spite of much rhetoric, decentralisation remains marginalized in a donor-government policy dialogue dominated by macro-economic and sectoral issues. Compartmentalisation within major aid organisations of the expertise and responsibilities to support administrative reforms, sectoral assistance programmes and community development projects, produces fragmented and competing interventions that do not address and even retard the systemic changes need to advance decentralisation. (InWent/DÜI)
World Affairs Online
In: Development and change, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 479-500
ISSN: 1467-7660
AbstractAid organizations profess universalist objectives, such as humanitarian principles and human rights, whilst operating in areas in which these objectives cannot be fulfilled. How do they deal with the disparity between the claims they make and what actually happens? How are parts of the story covered up, and what do the stated objectives achieve? This article argues that denial — at a personal, organizational and institutional level — is crucial for sustaining assistance, and is facilitated by the language of rights and principles. Drawing on research from southern Sudan, it explores how aid organizations construct an official version of events that fabricates clarity whilst maintaining a degree of tactical confusion. This establishes a political morality, a seemingly ethical position that has political and psychological returns.
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 23, S. 2101-2116
ISSN: 0305-750X
In: The Adelphi Papers, Band 42, Heft 351, S. 25-35
In: Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 198
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In: Public administration and development: the international journal of management research and practice, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 89-96
ISSN: 1099-162X
AbstractA paradigm linking public sector decentralisation reforms to poverty reduction via improved local governance and development has provided the rationale for donor support of decentralisation and parallel efforts to build local government capacity. This article briefly considers the paradigm and reviews modalities of external aid to decentralisation, highlighting key limitations and contradictions. In spite of much rhetoric, decentralisation remains marginalised in a donor‐government policy dialogue dominated by macro‐economic and sectoral issues. Compartmentalisation within major aid organisations of the expertise and responsibilities to support administrative reforms, sectoral assistance programmes and community development projects, produces fragmented and competing interventions that do not address and even retard the systemic changes needed to advance decentralisation. New and more effective partnership arrangements between decentralising governments and their external partners are necessary to link 'downstream' assistance to local governments to 'upstream' development of the national decentralisation reform framework and to help manage a gradual and strategic approach to implementation of the reforms. Donor support to 'decentralisation policy experiments' may provide a new model for policy dialogue and the basis for building more effective partnerships. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 23, Heft 12, S. 2101-2116