Governance of the Aid System and the Role of the European Union

Barder, Owen; Gavas, Mikaela; Maxwell, Simon; Johnson, Deborah L.; Ocampo, José Antonio

doi:10.7312/columbia/9780231159661.003.0007

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“…The ethical and moral case for aid has been one of the most contested areas of debate in the field of development studies (Opeskin, ; Riddell, ; Hattori, ; Sumner and Tribe, ), ranging from philosophical discussions about humanitarianism and justice to conditionality (see Gasper, ; Chandler, ) and the “democratic deficit” within the international aid architecture (see Hammad and Morton, ; Barder et al ., ; Monye and Orakwue, ). As such, ‘ethics is central to any discussion of aid and why it is given’ (Riddell, : 119)—and how.…”

Section: Emerging Donors In Aid–ethics Debatesmentioning

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Bridging Troubled Worlds? An Analysis of the Ethical Case for South Korean Aid

Kim

2011

J of Intl Development

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This article critically assesses an ethical case of emerging donors via a case study of South Korea's official development assistance. In so doing, the article sets out two tasks: (i) overcoming the hitherto reductionist reading of emerging donors that uses the established normative framework as a reference point and (ii) addressing a relatively understudied topic of emerging donors within the mainstream aid-ethics debates. To attend to these analytical gaps, the article focuses on two things. First, the case study is discussed within Korea's own historical and institutional context to highlight the latter's significant influence on the way its ethical case for aid provision is presented. Second, this study focuses on the tensions between the stated ethical rhetoric and reality. This study finds that the ethical case is not only an important rationale for Korea's donorship but also strategic for its efforts to achieve the comparative advantage in the increasingly competitive international aid market to advance its national interests.

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Section: Emerging Donors In Aid–ethics Debatesmentioning

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Bridging Troubled Worlds? An Analysis of the Ethical Case for South Korean Aid

Kim

2011

J of Intl Development

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“…The rules aimed at increasing aid effectiveness link in to the global aid effectiveness agenda, such as the Paris Declaration, the Accra Agenda and the Busan Partnership. There are voices examining whether the EU is the best possible forum for donor co-ordination (see Maxwell et al (2010) for a discussion), yet it cannot be disputed that the EU, as one of the largest global donors, has done the most in practice by undergoing a spectacular transformation in the past decades to become a rather effective aid agency (Carbone, 2007). There is always room for improvement of courseas a recent report by the European Court of Auditors (2010) showed in the case of budget support -but the general direction of EU development practice is clearly towards improving the effectiveness of aid in reducing poverty.…”

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Reluctant Donors? The Europeanization of International Development Policies in the New Member States

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Szent‐Iványi

2014

J of Common Market Studies

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The EU played an instrumental role re-starting the international development policies in Central and Eastern European member states, but questions remain about how far this policy area has been Europeanized since accession. Focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, the paper investigates why the new donors have been reluctant to adopt the EU's development acquis more fully. The paper traces the process of the EU's development policy rulemaking and subsequent national rule implementation to understand the socialization opportunities these processes offer. The conclusions reveal thrre reasons why socialization has been weak: (1) perceptions among the new member states on the development acquis' procedural legitimacy; (2) low domestic resonance with the development acquis; and (3) inconsistencies in the activities of norm entrepreneurs. The paper contributes to our understanding of development policy in the EU, in particular how decision making takes place within the Council and its Working Groups post enlargement.

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“…In the first case, if the objective is just to add new donors to the existing consensus, the DAC could continue to play its role as a central force in the debate and definition of aid policy; in the second case, if the objective is to involve new donors in a more complex system, a more inclusive forum should be sought, in which all countries are represented. Looking at the likely evolution of the international system in the future, this second option seems more reasonable, that is to say a displacement of the current governance structures towards more inclusive and representative institutions (Barder et al, 2012).…”

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From Aid to Global Development Policy

2012

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Working Papers

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The international community has advanced in reforming the international aid system. Such reform comes at a time when there is a renewed skepticism about aid effectiveness and when the crisis sheds new doubts about the sustainability of donors´ commitments. At the same time, the international reality has changed as a consequence of the growing heterogeneity of the developing world, the new geography of global poverty, the emergence of new powers from the developing world, the presence of new aid players and, finally, the enlargement of the sphere of international public goods. Such changes demand a deeper reform in the development cooperation system.

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Governance of the Aid System and the Role of the European Union

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Bridging Troubled Worlds? An Analysis of the Ethical Case for South Korean Aid

Bridging Troubled Worlds? An Analysis of the Ethical Case for South Korean Aid

Reluctant Donors? The Europeanization of International Development Policies in the New Member States

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