...Foreign aid encompasses technical, military, humanitarian and financial assistance provided by developed countries to help foster economic, political and social progression in developing countries. Foreign aid results in positive and negative consequences for developing countries and is subject to decisions made by government officials with regard to its distribution (Leonard, 2006). Examined in this paper is the impact of peace and war on foreign aid distribution, specific actions undertaken by government officials to relieve problems resulting from warfare and the role of foreign aid in poverty and warfare reduction in India. India is not immune to intrastate and interstate warfare. The relationship between India and Pakistan has always been rocky characterized by multiple outbreaks of warfare. However, it was not until the second interstate war of 1965 that international states intervened to offer foreign aid to advance their own selfish agendas. The United States failed to offer any foreign aid to India, as it was not in its best interest (Hagerty, 2005). At the time, Nehru, a strong proponent for socialism led the Indian government. He advocated for the nationalization of infrastructure and business, which undermined privatization. As a result, the Soviet Union was inclined to offer its support, as India served to undermine capitalism (an ideology propagated by the US during the Cold War) (Leonard, 2006). Post-Cold War India is predominantly a peaceful state with minimal...
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...Period Foreign Aid Is helping other countries really worth the United States’ money? Foreign Aid is the act of giving money, food, or other resources to other countries that are less fortunate. Is it worth it? Many Americans as well as Congressmen argue this while trying to make serious budget cuts. The United States alone spends about $50 Billion a year to 180 countries towards under developed countries, poor countries, or even countries at war that cannot provide their own resources for their people. However, this is less than half of 1% of our total budget making it almost nothing compared to the benefits it provides for the other countries as well as our own. First beginning in World War II, the US used Foreign Aid to help rebuild the economies in Western Europe and help contain the Soviet expansion during the aftermath during the war. Later, in 1945; 188 countries established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Bank of Reconstruction and Development for debt relief and economic development. This provided something to fall back on, in case of emergency. Another groups established in 1946 called the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration or UNRRA was created to provide relief for war-torn countries. Proven successful in 1946, distributed $4.5 Billion of food and supplies to Europe where World War II had destroyed economies. History is proving time and time again how countries and people are benefiting from organizations much like this. Foreign Aid is used...
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...Period Foreign Aid Is helping other countries really worth the United States’ money? Foreign Aid is the act of giving money, food, or other resources to other countries that are less fortunate. Is it worth it? Many Americans as well as Congressmen argue this while trying to make serious budget cuts. The United States alone spends about $50 Billion a year to 180 countries towards under developed countries, poor countries, or even countries at war that cannot provide their own resources for their people. However, this is less than half of 1% of our total budget making it almost nothing compared to the benefits it provides for the other countries as well as our own. First beginning in World War II, the US used Foreign Aid to help rebuild the economies in Western Europe and help contain the Soviet expansion during the aftermath during the war. Later, in 1945; 188 countries established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Bank of Reconstruction and Development for debt relief and economic development. This provided something to fall back on, in case of emergency. Another groups established in 1946 called the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration or UNRRA was created to provide relief for war-torn countries. Proven successful in 1946, distributed $4.5 Billion of food and supplies to Europe where World War II had destroyed economies. History is proving time and time again how countries and people are benefiting from organizations much like this. Foreign Aid is used...
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...Effects of War and Peace on Foreign Aid Louis Kerry Holmes Jr. Strayer University SOC 300 Professor Terry C. October 31, 2014 The Effects of War and Peace on Foreign Aid War comes with many costs, and Foreign Aid is one among the many. In fact, there has been many cases the biggest that a nation had to pay. In International relations, overseas aid or foreign aid being used in the form of a voluntary transfer of resources from a developed country, such as the United States of America to developing nation like Bangladesh or India. A part of the objective behind this act of giving is often Humanitarianism and altruism. Humanitarianism meaning the ethic of kindness, Benevolence and sympathy extended universally and impartially to all human being for welfare of humanity. Similarly altruism stands for selflessness, a concern for the welfare of others: These aids have other functions too. It may be given as a signal of diplomatic approval, or to strengthen a military ally, to reward a government for behavior desired by the donor, to extend the donor's cultural influence, to provide infrastructure needed by the donor for resource extraction from the recipient country, or to gain other kinds of commercial access. There are all kinds of aid: Emergency aid, development aid, official development Assistance or ODA, private giving, cash aid, in-kind aid, air priorities, logistics, etc. In developing countries like India and Bangladesh, foreign aid has played a very important...
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...Analyse debates about foreign aid to improve health outcomes in a particular country or region. In your opinion, what is needed to improve health outcomes in poor (aid recipient) countries and/or communities? South Sudan South Sudan separated from Sudan and gained its independence in 2011. This world's newest country has the third-largest oil reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa and yet it has one of the world's poorest population --- 50.6% of a population of, approximately 11 million people, is living below the national poverty line. From 2006 to 2010, South Sudan received approximately one billion US dollars from foreign aid and a total of $1.4 billion US dollars one year after its independence. Sharing an oil-rich border with North Sudan, 98% of the government's budget relies on its oil revenue, What is the role of foreign aid in South Sudan? Foreign aid agencies have contributed billions of dollars during the period when South Sudan is signing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and after its independence in 2011 (Ajak, Larson, & Pritchett, 2013). This money didn’t go directly to South Sudan's government. But it funded almost everything including water, food, security training, drugs, textbooks and a range of other services. Also, 4/5 of health care in South Sudan is provided by outside groups. Services and funding are provided by a number of national and international NGOs and the United Nations (UN) agencies that operate in the region...
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...The Effects of War and Peace on Foreign Aid Leon Moore Dr. Bernard Curry Soc 300 7/22/2015 Foreign aid encompasses the technical, military; humanitarian along with financial assistance is given to the developed nations for helping to foster economic, political as well as social progression within the developing countries. Foreign aid outcomes in the positive along with negative consequences for developing countries and has been the subject of decisions made by the government officials regarding their distribution. Discussed in this paper has been the effect of peace along with war on the foreign aid distribution, particular actions undertaken by government officials for relieving the issues out coming from the warfare as well as role of the foreign aid in the poverty and also warfare reduction within India. India has not been immune to intrastate along with interstate the warfare. Partnership within the India, as well as Pakistan, has commonly been rough showcased via many breakouts of war. Not until the 2nd domestic war of the year 1965, which worldwide States stepped in for providing the foreign aid for advancing its self-seeking programs. The US failed for offering any international help to the India like this had not remained in their benefit (Sahoo & Sethi, 2013). At the time, Nehru, the firm advocate for the socialist-led Indian government. He has supported for nationalization concerning the framework together with the business that threatened the privatization...
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...Should the U.S provide foreign aid to Syria? Syria continues to be categorized as a state sponsor of terrorism, since 1979. Syria’s government supports U.S.-listed terrorist groups and allows some of these groups, such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, to maintain headquarters in Damascus. Both of these organizations have been labeled as a terrorist group not only by the U.S, but also by the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and Israel. The Syrian government also houses and aids worldwide terrorists, and serves as the center of trade in illegal narcotics. An American supported Israeli-Syrian treaty would make it far more difficult, rather than easier, for the United States to speak up or take action against these activities. The 2006 State Department Country Report says the Syrian government remains an active supporter of Hezbollah and has a secret presence in Lebanese politics. The goal of the Hezbollah is to dominate Lebanese politics in order to create a theocratic Islamic state out of Iran and to act as Iran’s (and Syria’s) substitute in confronting Israel and the US as a second front. Syria has suspected ties to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005. However, Syria still rejects the terrorist categorization, denies involvement in the Hariri killing, and says it was Hamas, Hezbollah, and other groups on its soil to be legitimate resistance movements aimed at beneficial Arab territory held by Israel. Reports claim...
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...models developed to determine the impact of each sector-Export, Import, Foreign Aid and Remittance, on GDP of Bangladesh. It also involves an analysis of the behavior of these factors in three SAARC countries and the application of the regression model developed. The economic model was developed based on the past behavior of GDP and the external sector. It indicated that Remittance is the sector having the most significant impact on GDP and aid the second most significant. While imports negatively affect economic growth, exports have played a very important role over the period. The remittance of Bangladesh has been increasing over the last few years. Hence, its impact on GDP has also been rising. In the span of 34 years export as percentage of GDP increased from 2.2% to 15.4%. Hence, performance was moderately good. The economy has been suffering from ever increasing trade deficits, despite several export promotional measures. Large import payments mainly account for this problem. Foreign aid shows large fluctuations over the period Finally, an analysis was conducted on the behavior of the external sectors in the SAARC countries using the regression model. Export was found to be the dominant sector in India, while imports had the minimum impact on GDP. Pakistan was found to be more dependent on export and foreign aid than on remittance and import. Sri Lanka’s economy is highly correlated to remittance, aids and export. 1 Literature Review Several studies in recent years...
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...The integration of developing and least developed countries with the global economy increased sharply in the 1990s with change in their economic policies and lowering of barriers to trade and investment. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to benefit poor countries such as Bangladesh in a number of ways. Firstly, it supplements domestic investment which is low due to lack of resources in these countries. Secondly, FDI is expected to generate employment, transfer, increase domestic competition and bring other positive externalities such as transfer of good practices. Bangladesh offers attractive investment opportunities to foreign investors and has adopted policies to attract FDI into the country. In fact Bangladesh seems to offer one of the most liberal FDI regimes in South Asia. The economic model was developed based on the past behavior of GDP and the external sector. It indicated that FDI is the sector having the most significant impact on GDP and aid the second most significant. While imports negatively affect economic growth, exports have played a very important role over the period. During the 1990s, notable progress was made in economic performance. Along with maintaining economic stabilization with a significantly reduced and declining dependence on foreign aid, the economy appeared to begin a transition from stabilization to growth. In the 1980s, per capita GDP had grown slowly at the rate of about 1.6 per cent per...
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...Foreign Aid to Egypt Prior and Post the 2011 Revolution Mona El-Sholkamy Misr International University [pic] Abstract Foreign aid is one of those topics that have provided ample room for discussion and controversy over the years. The world has had more than fifty years of experience of aid giving and receiving in the post-war era. This experience has enriched our knowledge not only about aid -- a broad subject with numerous interrelated issues -- but also about the entire development process foreign aid supposedly seeks to accelerate. Hundreds of billions of foreign aid dollars have been designated to developing countries and hundreds of billions more will be provided in the next few years. For the past years, U.S. foreign aid has been judged by its intentions, not its results. Foreign aid programs have been perpetuated and expanded not because they have succeeded, but because giving foreign aid still seems like a good idea. But foreign aid has rarely done anything that countries could not have done for themselves. Furthermore, it has often encouraged the recipient governments' worst tendencies--helping to underwrite programs and policies that have starved thousands of people and derailed struggling economies. Given this, the question now is how much foreign aid is enough. How much do we really need as an economy at this stage of our development? What type of aid is most effective? Is more aid necessarily better? Implied in these questions is that the amount...
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...Foreign aid 'rushed out to meet the PM's target': Report claims ministers splurged almost £100million a day * Commons International Development Committee warns sums appear to have been 'rushed out at the end of the year' * Foreign aid spending target is 0.7 per cent of Britain's total income * Department for International Development spent 25% of budget in a month * Report accuses ministers of spending too much on ‘middle income’ countries such as Nigeria, Pakistan and India By JASON GROVES PUBLISHED: 23:21 GMT, 29 April 2014 | UPDATED: 07:13 GMT, 30 April 2014 * * * * * 245 shares 120 View comments Ministers splurged almost £100million a day on foreign aid in December in a frantic bid to hit David Cameron’s controversial spending target, a report claims. The Commons International Development Committee warns today that vast sums appear to have been ‘rushed out at the end of the year’ to meet the target of spending 0.7 per cent of Britain’s total income on foreign aid. The committee says it is astonishing that the Department for International Development (DfID) spent a quarter of its total budget in one month and calls on ministers to show that the spending was ‘rational and cost-effective’. +3 Spending: Ministers splurged almost £100million a day on foreign aid in December in a frantic bid to hit David Cameron¿s controversial spending target, a report claims +3 Support: The report also accuses ministers...
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...World Bank, The Doha Round and the upcoming Deli Round, the Bilateral Preferential Trade Agreements, the Cotonou Agreement and the Economic Partnership Agreement ( just to name a few). This multidisciplinary dimension of the IDL does not make it easy to define. This is the reason why we decided to analyze what the US, through his Administrator of the United states Agency for International Development spokesman, Andrew S. Natsios, in January 2006, said regarding five critical issues of IDL. Furthermore we will study the position of China and Angola in order to have a more complete picture of how the mechanism of donors and recipient countries work focusing on two completely different realities. In the second part of the analysis we will focus on the World Bank and its branches. This analysis is based on a speech given by Andrew S. Natsios on October 12 2005, in Parliament, when invited by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development of the Westminster parliament together with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Adrian Hewitt, the head of ODI, described Natsios as “an articulated advocate as well as an outspoken reformer of the US approach to Aid”. Being the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (i.e. USAID), Andrew Natsios...
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...Country Paper Aid Flow to Bangladesh and the Question of Accountability of CSOs at National Level to the People They Serve By Shadnaz Khan* Bangladesh, like other poor and less developed countries, has been a regular receiver of foreign aid or external assistance in order to lessen the gap between savings and investment and to mitigate the balance of payment deficit. However, there has been serious debate over the issues such as low performance in aid-utilization, donors’ stringent and one-size-fits-all conditionalities and global aid politics that are believed to undermine the potential benefits that aid could have brought to the development scenario of the country. The apprehension over aid issues is felt in different countries around the world and also among the donors themselves. As a result, the idea of aid effectiveness has received increasing attention and importance in international discussions that generates hope that the international structure of aid would create sustainable development outcome for the poor countries. This paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, a general description of aid flows to Bangladesh has been presented and in the second part, an attempt has been made to assess the donor support models for CSOs in managing aid at country level and the scope for ensuring their accountability to their primary constituents, i.e., the people they serve in Bangladesh. A General Scenario of Aid flow to Bangladesh From 1972 to 30 June 2006...
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...give recommendations to the US policy. Rockefeller reported that the US and Latin American were becoming more distant and suggested that the US show more tolerance for authoritarian rule in Latin America. This is significant because it left the Nixon administration with two options to maintain bilateral relations with Latin America. He could either give more economic aid or assist the authoritarian governments. 2. Why did the US oppose Allende's democratically elected government? How responsible was the US for its overthrow? Allende sought to improve the living standards of his nation by decreasing the influence of large land owners and US multinational corporations. As a result, the US copper mining companies and the International Telephone and Telegraph feared that they would lose more under his power. Also, Nixon feared that if Chile...
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...US Foreign Policy The officially stated aims of the foreign policy of the United States, as declared by the United States Department of State and United States Agency for International Department is “to create a more secure, democratic, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community.” Moreover, the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs states as some of its jurisdictional goals: "export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware; measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign nations and to safeguard American business abroad; International commodity agreements; international education; and protection of American citizens abroad and expatriation." So through all this, what Americans are trying to say is that they want to make the world a better place but not without putting their interests first. Therefore, I believe that this policy is far from being great as they want it to be. One of the main issues is that the presidency is overburdened and more than that has too much authority. Presidents have not only foreign policy responsibilities, but sizeable domestic duties too. In addition, the presidency is the head of a political party. As a result, it is tough for one person to manage disparate tasks and more than that, it gives him the opportunity and the advantage of imposing his own views in a subtle way. As well as that, presidents may lack experience. Since...
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