Foreign Aid and the National Interest

Packenham, Robert A.

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“…As such, aid can also be construed as motivated by national interest: George Liska, for instance, wrote in 1960 that "foreign aid is today and will remain for some time an instrument of political power" (Lancaster, 2008, p. 3). Donor governments advance foreign policy interests through aid masquerading as apolitical stabilising resources (Packenham, 1966;Swiss, 2012). Aid may therefore be considered a form of neo-colonialism (Paragg, 1980); in post-colonial Africa, for example, European states sought to maintain influence through aid contingent on the adoption of neoliberal structural adjustment policies (Stein, 2001;Abbas and Niyiragira, 2009).…”

Section: Q3 What Is the Relationship Between Aid And Corruption?mentioning

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Aid diversion, accountability and questions unanswered: contextualising the World Bank working paper on offshore capture of foreign aid

Damianos

2020

JMLC

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to engage a contentious World Bank publication beyond its controversy. In particular, it assesses mechanisms that facilitate elite capture of foreign aid and potential strategies of accountability. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts desk research methodology, relying primarily upon journal papers, books and internet sources related to international development and corruption. Findings This paper isolates three factors that contribute to elite capture of foreign aid: the codified secrecy of offshore tax havens, customary clientelism and decentralised aid. Regarding accountability measures, it advocates decreasing livelihood dependence on local elites and encouraging meaningful involvement by civil society. Originality/value This paper de-sensationalises the controversial World Bank working paper, providing a contextualised reading that at the time of publication does not yet exist.

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Section: Q3 What Is the Relationship Between Aid And Corruption?mentioning

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Aid diversion, accountability and questions unanswered: contextualising the World Bank working paper on offshore capture of foreign aid

Damianos

2020

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“…First, the majority of work on motivations for granting aid is interested in the international relations of, and state motivations for, foreign aid. Much of the international relations (IR) literature has been dominated by consequentialist logics of power politics and the self-serving reasons for giving aid (Hayter, 1971; Headey, 2008; Hook, 1995; Macrae and Leader, 2001; McKinlay and Little, 1979; Morgenthau, 1962; Packenham, 1966; Thérien, 2002). Liberals have also interpreted foreign aid as a rational – as opposed to moral – way of maximising a state's utility.…”

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‘The Righteous Considereth the Cause of the Poor’? Public Attitudes Towards Poverty in Developing Countries

Heerde

Hudson

2009

Political Studies

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Events in 2005 such as the G8 Summit in Gleneagles and the Make Poverty History campaign have been successful in focusing the public's attention on the problem of world poverty. Despite these high‐profile events and consistently high levels of public support for development assistance programmes, people's understanding of poverty and development issues remains shallow and levels of official development aid for many OECD countries fall well below the 0.7 per cent GDP goal. In this article we examine what factors drive individual‐level attitudes of concern for poverty, how the media portray poverty in developing countries and how media portrayal affects individuals' concern for poverty. Drawing on extant literature on motivations for aid, we argue that individual concern for poverty can stem from self‐interest or moral drivers. However, the implications of the different drivers do not appear to be well understood, yet they have important consequences for DFID and the OECD; strategies based on preference‐accommodation rather than preference‐shaping strategies may undermine rather than strengthen public concern for poverty. The data for the article come from DFID's 2005 Omnibus survey of public attitudes towards development and a content analysis of eight UK newspapers from January to December 2005. Using a binary logistic regression model we estimate individual concern for poverty in developing countries as a function of moral judgements, self‐interest, awareness of poverty and assessments of achieving Millennium Development Goals, controlling for a host of demographic variables. Results from the content analysis show that economic and political frames dominate media coverage of poverty in developing countries. We find differential effects for moral and self‐interested attitudes on concern for poverty; moral attitudes are positively related to concern, whereas self‐interested attitudes are negatively related to concern.

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“…La aparición de las corrientes cientificistas provoca una posterior reacción de neorrealistas y neoliberales. Tras algunos primeros intentos de los tradicionalistas por operacionalizar el concepto de interés nacional (Packenham, 1966), en la década de 1970, una serie de trabajos incorporan métodos cuantitativos para analizar la correlación entre ayuda e intereses políticos y económicos, tales como apoyo a gobernantes aliados, votos en las Naciones Unidas, o soporte a regímenes democráticos o a excolonias. Esos trabajos intentan explicar las motivaciones de la ayuda en función de su distribución geográfica desde la óptica de los modelos empíricos basados en la regresión (Wittkopf, 1973;Dudley y Montmarquette, 1976;McKinlay, 1979).…”

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2020

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Foreign Aid and the National Interest

Cited by 10 publications

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Aid diversion, accountability and questions unanswered: contextualising the World Bank working paper on offshore capture of foreign aid

Aid diversion, accountability and questions unanswered: contextualising the World Bank working paper on offshore capture of foreign aid

‘The Righteous Considereth the Cause of the Poor’? Public Attitudes Towards Poverty in Developing Countries

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