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Encyclopedia > Developmental aid
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Development aid (also development assistance, international aid, overseas aid or foreign aid) is aid given by developed countries to support economic development in developing countries. It is distinguished from humanitarian aid as being aimed at alleviating poverty in the long term, rather than alleviating suffering in the short term. This article should be merged with [[{{{with}}}]] development aid and humanitarian aid Foreign aid, international aid or development assistance is when one country helps another country through some form of donation. ... AID can mean: Association for Indias Development Categories: Disambiguation ... A developed country is a country that has achieved (currently or historically) a high degree of industrialization, and which enjoys the higher standards of living which wealth and technology make possible. ... Economic development is the development of economic wealth of countries or regions for the well-being of their inhabitants. ... A developing country is a country with low average income compared to the world average. ... Humanitarian aid is assistance given to people in distress by individuals, organisations, or governments to relieve suffering. ...


The term "development aid" is often used to refer specifically to Official Development Assistance (ODA), which is aid given by governments on certain concessional terms, usually as simple donations. It is given by governments through individual countries' international aid agencies and through multilateral institutions such as the World Bank, and by individuals through development NGOs such as Care International or Oxfam. Historically the term used for the donation of expertise has been technical assistance. Official Development Assistance (ODA) is a category of development aid. ... Multilateralism is an international relations term that refers to multiple countries working in concert. ... The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, in Romance languages: BIRD), better known as the World Bank, is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by WWII. Now, its mission has expanded to fight poverty by means of financing states. ... Jenns a loser ...

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Background

The offer to give development aid has to be understood in the context of the cold war. The speech in which Harry Truman announced the foundation of NATO is also a founding document of development policy. "In addition, we will provide military advice and equipment to free nations which will cooperate with us in the maintenance of peace and security. Fourth, we must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas. More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery. Their food is inadequate. They are victims of disease. Their economic life is primitive and stagnant. Their poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more prosperous areas. For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of these people.“ The Cold War was the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and its allies (roughly speaking, NATO members) and the Soviet Union and its allied (roughly speaking, Warsaw Pact members), until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. ... For the victim of Mt. ... The flag of NATO NATO 2002 Summit The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 1949. ...


Development aid wanted to offer technical solutions to social problems without altering basic social structures. Wherever even moderate changes in these social structures were undertaken, e.g. the land reforms in Guatemala in the early 1950ies, the United States usually fiercefully opposed these changes.


2004 Figures

The combined Official Development Assistance of OECD countries in 2004 was $78.6 billion. The United States is the world's largest contributor of ODA in absolute terms, $19 billion, but this figure should be compared to the combined European Union contribution that totaled $42.9 billion. Expressed as a percentage of GNI, Norway's contributions remained in the lead at 0.87%, with the combined EU at 0.36%. The United States remains the lowest contibutor as a percentage of the OECD, at 0.16%. [1] (http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/59/51/34700392.pdf)


External links

  • OECD Development Co-operation Directorate (DAC) (http://www.oecd.org/dac)
  • AiDA: Accessible Information on Development Activities (http://aida.developmentgateway.org/AidaHome.do)
  • Håkan Malmqvist (2000), "Development Aid, Humanitarian Assistance and Emergency Relief", Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden [2] (http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No46/Develop.html)
  • Andrew Rogerson with Adrian Hewitt and David Waldenberg (2004), "The International Aid System 2005–2010 Forces For and Against Change", ODI Working Paper 235 [3] (http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/working_papers/wp235.pdf)
  • Millions Saved (http://www.cgdev.org/Publications/MillionsSaved/) A compilation of case studies of successful foreign assistance by the Center for Global Development (http://www.cgdev.org).

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Development aid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1484 words)
Development aid (also development assistance, international aid, overseas aid or foreign aid) is aid given by developed countries to support the economic, sociological and political development of developing countries.
It is distinguished from humanitarian aid as being aimed at alleviating poverty in the long term, rather than alleviating suffering in the short term (Foreign aid, on the other hand, includes both development aid and humanitarian aid.
Aid effectiveness refers to the degree to which development aid works, and is a subject of significant disagreement.
Forgotten Goals: But war is on :: Poverty Catalyst :: Environment and Poverty :: CSE (842 words)
In 2002, a third of the increase in aid flows from rich to poor countries came from allocations to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Flows of US aid to Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and Afghanistan in the past three years are equal to aid to the rest of the world combined.
About 30 percent of aid given by the G 8 (minus Russia) countries was tied to an obligation to buy goods and services from the donor country.
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