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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    07 September 2011
    01 September 2011
    ISBN:
    9780511842177
    9781107009745
    9780521264099
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511842177
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.61kg, 310 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.49kg, 310 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Economics, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Economic Development and Growth
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in International Relations (120)
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    Subjects:
    Economics, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Economic Development and Growth
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in International Relations (120)
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    Why do countries give foreign aid? Although many countries have official development assistance programs, this book argues that no two of them see the purpose of these programmes in the same way. Moreover, the way countries frame that purpose has shaped aid policy choices past and present. The author examines how Belgium long gave aid out of a sense of obligation to its former colonies, The Netherlands was more interested in pursuing international influence, Italy has focused on the reputational payoffs of aid flows and Norwegian aid has had strong humanitarian motivations since the beginning. But at no time has a single frame shaped any one country's aid policy exclusively. Instead, analysing half a century of legislative debates on aid in these four countries, this book presents a unique picture both of cross-national and over time patterns in the salience of different aid frames and of varying aid programmes that resulted.

    Reviews

    '… a fundamental contribution to the academic debate about foreign aid.'

    Damiano de Felice Source: European Journal of Development Research

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