Beyond Needs Performance And Self Interest As Principles Guiding The Allocation Of Aid

Download or read book Beyond Needs, Performance and Self-Interest as Principles Guiding the Allocation of Aid written by Julien Camoin and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the reasons why France gives aid to developing countries. The literature on development assistance traditionally opposes three explanatory paradigms - the donor's interests, the recipient's needs and the recipient's governance. These perspectives oversimplify the reality of the aid policy-making process: in practice, aid organizations adapt the official prescriptions to internal administrative constraints and to external competitive forces. In the first section of this paper, we show the dominance of the "foreign policy interest" with a regression analysis. The second section of this paper explains these trends by analyzing the balance of power between the stake-holders within the French aid system: AFD's autonomy reinforced the role of loans in the French ODA to the detriment of Least-Developed countries. We finally show through a Porter's analysis that competitive forces also contribute to skewing French ODA towards populous emerging countries.