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The provision of Arab Gulf aid: The emergence of new donors
This study explores the motives of small Arab donors for the provision of aid. The existing literature of financial assistance separates donors into...
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Foreign aid, soft power, and domestic government legitimacy: experimental evidence from South Korean aid to Indonesia
This research aims to examine how foreign aid affects the recipient public’s view of donors and their own government. Foreign aid is believed to...
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Securitization and Compliance in Aid Work
This chapter provides a contextualization of screening by briefly summarizing the historical background of securitization characterizing the...
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Between aid and rights: Humanitarian international NGOs responding to the crisis of European refugee protection
The ongoing crisis of refugee protection in Europe exemplifies a tension between providing humanitarian aid and fighting for human rights. Some...
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Yōsei-Shugi: The Mystery of the Japanese Request-Based Aid
It is intriguing how the request-based principle, which started as little more than a name for project formulation procedures, has come to attain a...
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Aid for taxation and representation? The effect of foreign tax assistance on democracy in the Global South
Can foreign aid foster democracy? This is a foundational question debated in development studies and donor circles. Within this debate, some scholars...
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Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid
This chapter focuses on issues of human rights and humanitarian aid, and discusses two kinds of institutions. The first are what might be described...
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South Korea’s Fragmented Aid Structure from the 1960s to Early 1990s: Analysis Through Path Dependence
The study aims to clarify how and why South Korea initiated and maintained a fragmented aid structure, even though discussions about integration...
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Congressional Polarization and Limitation Riders in Foreign Aid Appropriations
Critics often accuse Congress of abdicating its constitutional authority in foreign policy. One source of evidence of congressional abdication is the...
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Ōnā Shippu: A Vestige of Japan’s Ambition to Lead International Aid
Ownership is a concept that the international aid community has emphasized since the 1990s, and Japan has been an enthusiastic practitioner and...
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Global Britain and UK Aid Policy Towards Africa
This chapter explores UK elites’ use of aid in Africa to achieve geopolitical and economic goals for Global Britain. For example, it assesses the use...
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EU State Aid Policy: Concealed Transfer of Competences?
This chapter concerns the role of competition policy, and in particular EU State aid rules, in the European integration process. The Treaty of the...
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Development and Aid in Africa: The Chinese Perspective on Europe
Development aid is a major means for major powers to conduct geopolitical competition and realize strategic interests. This chapter introduces the...
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Kazakhstan as a Humanitarian Aid Donor
This chapter explores the activities of Kazakhstan as an aid provider. Having a long-standing record of offering emergency relief and humanitarian...
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The Aid Effectiveness Architecture and Kenya’s Agriculture Sector
This chapter demonstrates that aid effectiveness forums have been more successful as opportunities for donors to "talk at each other" rather than to...
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Foreign Aid and Virtue Signaling
This chapter considers foreign aid as a form of ‘rent’ influencing gender relations in the Middle East and North Africa. Development assistance and...
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Aid and Agriculture Sector in Kenya: A Focus on Major Stakeholders
This chapter provides an overview of the leading players in Kenya’s agriculture sector who are also pivotal in the implementation of the aid-funded...
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Donor bureaucratic organisation and the pursuit of performance-based aid through multilateral trust funds
Multilateral trust funds have become an increasingly prominent funding mechanism in international development. Yet marked differences exist in the...
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A healthy peace: public good provision and post-civil war peace stability
The study of civil war recurrence is situated at the intersection of conflict and peacebuilding. These literatures focus on disparate definitions of...
