Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:1st Sep '11
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Shows how different countries' foreign aid programs are profoundly shaped by their visions of the purpose of aid.
Every rich country gives foreign aid, but no two aid programs are alike. This book argues that beliefs about the purpose of foreign aid drive policy choices. For example, framing aid in terms of export interests produces a different aid program than would result from a humanitarian frame.Why do countries give foreign aid? Although many countries have official development assistance programs, this book argues that no two of them see the purpose of these programmes in the same way. Moreover, the way countries frame that purpose has shaped aid policy choices past and present. The author examines how Belgium long gave aid out of a sense of obligation to its former colonies, The Netherlands was more interested in pursuing international influence, Italy has focused on the reputational payoffs of aid flows and Norwegian aid has had strong humanitarian motivations since the beginning. But at no time has a single frame shaped any one country's aid policy exclusively. Instead, analysing half a century of legislative debates on aid in these four countries, this book presents a unique picture both of cross-national and over time patterns in the salience of different aid frames and of varying aid programmes that resulted.
'… a fundamental contribution to the academic debate about foreign aid.' Damiano de Felice, European Journal of Development Research
ISBN: 9781107009745
Dimensions: 235mm x 160mm x 20mm
Weight: 610g
310 pages