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The Global Crisis in Foreign Aid

The Global Crisis in Foreign Aid

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Series: Space, Place and Society

Economics

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ISBN10: 0815627726
ISBN13: 9780815627722
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: May 1 2000
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The internal destabilization of many poor countries that accompanied the end of the Cold War and the general failure of structural adjustment programs have changed the nature and allotment of foreign aid around the world.

Major donors of foreign aid such as the United States, Japan, and the European Union have been shifting their geographical priorities in allocating aid, as well as their project emphasis, since the end of the Cold War. In addition, multilateral aid agencies--the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Interna-tional Monetary Fund--are attempting to redress past failures of aid and revamp policies and priorities. Moreover, aid recipients in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet republics, and Central America are establishing priorities of their own and evaluating the success and failure of past aid programs.

This volume stands out in the literature on foreign aid because it includes contributions from eight policy representatives from a range of important donor and recipient countries--the United States, Japan, the

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