Political Science : Foreign Aid

This volume has grown out of a study of Japanese official development assistance (ODA) that I organized in 2001. Up to that time, Japan had been the world’s single largest contributor of bilateral ODA, but it was clear that changes of policy direction were brewing due to factors explained in the introduction to this volume. My idea was to gather the views of experts from a variety of backgrounds to gain perspectives on the state of Japanese ODA at the start of the new millennium that might do justice to the many dimensions of this policy area. more...

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The planned and spontaneous arming of refugees and IDPs threatens access to asylum as well as protection. But while the policy debates rage over how to deal with armed refugees and how to prevent their spill-over into neighbouring countries, surprisingly little research has been done to explain why displaced people arm themselves or how militarization affects the local and host populations. This book traces the experience of refugee and IDP militarization in four African countries emerging from or affected by war: Guinea, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. It considers the effects of such militarization on regional, national, and human security, and reflects on the responses of hosting governments and humanitarian organizations. more...

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This book presents peer reviewed research from the third conference on integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches (Q-Squared) in poverty analysis in the developing world.The first two conferences, at Cornell University (2001) and the University of Toronto (2004), addressed conceptual and empirical issues. This third conference, hosted by the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences in July 2007, focused on the applied use of Q-Squared analyses to inform decision-making. more...

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Aims to present ideas, principles and practicalities of establishing effective social protection in Africa. This work focuses on the major shift in strategy for tackling hunger and vulnerability, from emergency responses mainly in the form of food transfers to predictable cash transfers to the chronically poorest social groups. more...

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A comprehensive study of US aid to higher education in the Americas. more...

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