Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid / A. Maurits van der Veen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Veen, A. Maurits van der.

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Cambridge Studies in International Relations ; no. 120

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance.

Economic assistance, European.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

Why do countries give foreign aid? Although many countries have official development assistance programmes, this book argues that no two of them seethe 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 pay-offs 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The many uses of foreign aid 1

2 One policy, multiple goals: framing and foreign aid 23

3 Debates about aid: contents and patterns 48

4 Aid frames: origins and evolution 77

5 The administration of aid policy 110

6 The generosity contest: determinants of aid volume 139

7 The popularity contest: selecting the recipients of aid 171

8 Conclusion: frames and policy 210.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780511842177

9781107009745

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