{"id":115,"date":"2006-02-08T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/02\/08\/aid-dependency\/"},"modified":"2006-02-08T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T15:22:10","slug":"aid-dependency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/02\/08\/aid-dependency\/","title":{"rendered":"Aid Dependency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a163'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span>From the Center for Global Development, 01\/10\/2006<\/p>\n<p>Does<br \/>\nforeign aid help develop public institutions and state capacity in<br \/>\ndeveloping countries? In this Working Paper, the authors suggest that<br \/>\ndespite recent calls for increased aid to poor countries by the<br \/>\ninternational community, there may be an aid-institutions paradox.<br \/>\nWhile donor intentions may be sincere, the authors conclude that it is<br \/>\npossible that aid could undermine long-term institutional development,<br \/>\nparticularly in sub-Saharan Africa. &#8230; The conclusions are two-fold: countries which receive a<br \/>\nsubstantial portion of their revenues from foreign aid may be less<br \/>\naccountable to their citizens, and they may face less domestic pressure<br \/>\nto maintain popular legitimacy. The more aid countries receive from<br \/>\nabroad, therefore, the less incentive they have to invest in effective<br \/>\npublic institutions. &#8230; Also, allocating aid toward alternative development activities<br \/>\nmight be most beneficial. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Funding the eradication of endemic diseases,<br \/>\npeacekeeping activities, regional or global public goods, and debt<br \/>\nrelief would most likely side-step the aid-institutions paradox.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Center for Global Development, 01\/10\/2006 Does foreign aid help develop public institutions and state capacity in developing countries? In this Working Paper, the authors suggest that despite recent calls for increased aid to poor countries by the international community, there may be an aid-institutions paradox. While donor intentions may be sincere, the authors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}