Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy: Lessons for the Next Half-century: Lessons for the Next Half-century

by Picard,Louis A.

• ISBN13: 9780765620446
• ISBN10: 0765620448
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-01-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This timely work presents cutting-edge analysis of the problems of U.S. foreign assistance programs--why these problems have not been solved in the past, and how they might be solved in the future. The book focuses primarily on U.S. foreign assistance and foreign policy as they apply to nation building, governance, and democratization. The expert contributors examine issues currently in play, and also trace the history and evolution of many of these problems over the years. They address policy concerns as well as management and organizational factors as they affect programs and policies. Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy includes several chapter-length case studies (on Iraq, Pakistan, Ghana, Haiti, and various countries in Eastern Europe and Africa), but the bulk of the book presents broad coverage of general topics such as foreign aid and security, NGOs and foreign aid, capacity building, and building democracy abroad. Each chapter offers recommendations on how to improve the U.S. system of aid in the context of foreign policy.

Table of Contents

Preface

Foreign Aid Priorities: Goals for the Twenty-First Century

Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy Debates

Foreign Aid and Security: A Renewed Debate?

Foreign Aid in the Twenty-First Century: What Purposes?

Foreign Aid in the National Interest: The Importance of Democracy and Governance

Foreign Aid in Comparative Perspective: Regime Dynamics and Donor Interests

Case Studies in Foreign Aid

Building Local Governance in Iraq: Limits and Lessons

Foreign Aid and South Asia: The Case of Pakistan

Donors, Public-Sector Reform and Decentralization: Democracy and Civil Society in Ghana

Why Foreign Aid to Haiti Failed-and How to Do It Better Next Time

USAID and Eastern Europe: Something Old, Something New

Post-Millennium U.S. Foreign Aid for Africa: Reconciling Freedom and Security, Theirs and Ours

Organizational Dynamics and Foreign Aid Policy

Transformations in U.S. Foreign Economic Assistance

Higher Education, Capacity Building, and Aid: Lessons Learned

NGOs in the Foreign Aid System

The Millennium Challenge Account: An Early Appraisal

Deepening Local Democratic Governance: Connecting the Dots in Sub-Saharan Africa

International Assistance and Development

Diasporas and Development: What Role for Foreign Aid?

Remittances, Foreign Aid, and Developing Countries

Aid and Development: A Conceptual Perspective from Development Economics

Mainstreaming of Democracy and Governance in Foreign Assistance

About the Editors and Contributors

Index

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