A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE BY MAJOR INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS

1994 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuntaro SHISHIDO ◽  
Naonobu MINATO
Author(s):  
S. A. Samad

It is worthwhile to have a preview of the background of official econonic assistance. In the wake of independence of a large number of former colonies in Asia and Africa, at the end of the second World War and around the time when the Marshal Plan was being implemented in Europe, the former coloilies started to get the attention of their erstwhile colonisers who, in a vast majority of cases, did not want all ties with the periphery sapped all of a sudden. There were political, strategic, commercial and humanitarian consideration for this. The vast new world was viewed in the centres as a potential market for their exports. In addition was the thought of building up zones of influence in these newly independent countries where the way of life would be, given adequate support, on the pattern of the centres. Economic advancement of these countries was viewed as a major factor for sustaining non-inflationary growth in the industrial countries. A sort of interdependence of welfare functions of the peoples living in the two largely disparate worlds was also perceived by many in the industrial countries. There should not be a partage of the world between the very rich and the very poor, many felt obliged to concede. Aid was viewed as 'present day largesse produced by a feeling of post imperial guilt.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Garrido Rodríguez

La corrupción es uno de los grandes problemas que amenazan el bienestar de la sociedad. En los últimos años, han sido conocidos múltiples y muy significativos casos de corrupción, tanto a nivel internacional como en España. El ámbito de la Cooperación Internacional y la Ayuda Oficial al Desarrollo, pese a la nobleza de su razón de ser, no escapa, sin embargo, al ataque de las prácticas corruptas. En este artículo, se emplean las metodologías de interacción de variables y análisis descriptivo y funcional para estudiar cómo afecta la corrupción a la Cooperación Internacional y la Ayuda Oficial al Desarrollo en España y analizar los mecanismos desarrollados para evitarla. Asimismo, se estudian una serie de prácticas, que sin ser jurídicamente corrupción, desnaturalizan el concepto, restan eficiencia y deben ser corregidas.


2021 ◽  
pp. 223386592110248
Author(s):  
Yooneui Kim ◽  
Youngwan Kim

Are international organizations autonomous actors in global politics? This paper investigates whether and how major powers influence the World Bank’s official development assistance policies. Despite the World Bank’s attempts to maintain independence from its member states, we argue that major powers are still influential. Testing this expectation with the data of official development assistance provisions between 1981 and 2017, we find that the World Bank provides a higher amount of official development assistance to the recipient countries that receive a higher amount of such assistance from the major powers such as the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan. In addition, the World Bank is prone to provide a higher amount of official development assistance to the recipients that have a similar preference to the major powers. This study sheds light on the relations between major powers and international organizations.


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