ASTK15399U COURSE: The Politics and Economic of Aid
Bachelorlevel: 10 ECTS
Masterlevel: 7,5 ECTS
Elective course - Specialization "International political economy"
Note: The schedule will be changed to block 4
Poverty and poor governance continue to stay in the large part of developing countries despite major aid efforts. Governments, academics and aid practitioners alike have introduced various views of aid and modalities to speed up development, but results have been mixed. Experts have also pointed out political, economic and institutional factors are key factors for development. These discussions contributed to important declarations on aid, such as the Millennium Development Goals (2000) and Paris Declaration (2005), which was a commitment of donors to change how aid is delivered. New(er) donors entered the politics of aid in recent years as well. The BRICs are co-signers of the Busan Outcome Document (2011), establishing a Global Partnership for Development Cooperation. Aid and development concerns are increasingly linked with other global concerns, such as economic decline, climate change, health epidemic, food and fuel crises and so on.
Against this background, the primary objective of this course is to introduce research on the political, economic and institutional aspects of development cooperation (aid) and aid effectiveness. This research comes from academic research as well as policy-oriented insitutions such as NGOs, think tanks and aid agencies. The course consists of 7 weeks with 2 hours x 2 of teaching each week. Guest lectures will be incorporated when possible. This course is designed to in part prepare for life in a global and culturally diverse world. The course is open to everyone but can be considered as an advance course for the IPE specialization.
Schedule
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1 | Introduction |
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2 | Evolutions in Aid (1) |
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3 | Evolutions in Aid (2) |
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4 | The aid effectiveness debate |
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5 | Economies in Development |
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6 | Research design workshop |
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7 | Assessing debt relief and budget support |
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8 | Aid on environment |
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9 | Guest lecture |
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10 | Aid fragmentation |
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11 | Evaluating aid |
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12 | Emerging donors |
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13 | Research design workshop |
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14 | Summary |
Learning Outcome
By the end of this course you should be able to:
Demonstrate a critical understanding of political, economic and institutional aspects of development cooperation (aid) and aid effectiveness
Demonstrate an understanding of the contexts with which policy makers have to deal
Demonstrate an understanding of the contrasting theoretical approaches used to analyse politics and economics of aid
Demonstrate an ability to support and value intercultural communication
Demonstrate an ability to discuss different perspectives by brining in own knowledge and experience
Books
• Roger C. Riddell
Does Foreign Aid Really Work? New York: Oxford University Press,
2008 (536 pages)
• William Easterly
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the
Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2007 (400 pages)
• Paul Collier
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What
Can Be Done About It
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (224 pages)
Readings for individual lessons
1. Introduction
• Mavrotas, G. (2010). Introduction and Overview. In G.
Mavrotas (Ed.), Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, challenges,
and the new agenda (pp. 3-19). Oxford: Oxford Unviersity Press.
• Riddell, R. C. (2014). Does Foreign Aid Really Work?
Background paper to keynote address to the Australasian Aid
International Development Workshop, Canberra February 2014.
2. Evolutions in Aid (1)
• Birdsall, N. (2005). Seven Deadly Sins: Reflections on
Donor Failings Center for Global Development (Working Paper Number
50).
• Engberg-Pedersen, L. (2014). Bringing Aid Management Closer
to Reality: The Experience of Danish Bilateral Development
Cooperation. Development Policy Review, 32(1), 113-131.
• Lancaster, C. (2000). Redesigning Foreign Aid. Foreign
Affairs, 74(2000), 74-88.
• Ostrom, E., Gibson, C., Shivakumar, S., & Andersson, K.
(2002). Aid, Incentives, and Sustainability: An institutional
analysis of development cooperation Sida Studies in Evaluation
02/01. Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooepration
Agency,.
• World Bank. (1998). Assessing Aid. New York: Oxford
University Press.
3. Evolutions in Aid (2)
• Andersen, O. M. (2000). Sector programme assistance. In
F. Tarp (Ed.), Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons learnt and
directions for the future (pp. 178-194). London and New York:
Routledge.
• Grindle, M. S. (2004). Good Enough Governance: Poverty
Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries. Governance: An
International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions,
17(4), 525-548.
• Molenaers, N., & Renard, R. (2008). Policy Dialogue
under the New Aid Approach: Which role for medium-sized donors?
Theoretical reflections and views from the field Discussion paper
(2008.05). Antwerp: Institute of Development Policy and Management.
• Mosley, P., & Eeckhout, M. J. (2000). From project aid
to programme assistance. In F. Tarp (Ed.), Foreign Aid and
Development: Lessons learnt and directions for the future (pp.
131-153). London and New York: Routledge.
4. The aid effectiveness debate
• Burguignon, F., & Sundberg, M. (2007). Aid
Effectiveness: Opening the Black Box. The American Economic Review,
97(2), 316-321.
• Doucouliagos, H., & Paldam, M. (2009). The aid
effectiveness literature: The sad results of 40 years of research.
Journal of Economic Surveys, 23(3), 433-461.
• Hansen, H., & Tarp, F. (2000). Aid effectiveness
disputed Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons learnt and directions
for the future (pp. 103-128). London and New York: Routledge.
5. Economies in development
• Frieden, J. A., Lake, D. A., & Broz, J. L. (2010).
Economies in Development. In J. A. Frieden, D. A. Lake, & J. L.
Broz (Eds.), International Political Economy: Perspectives on
Global Power and Wealth (Fifth edition ed., pp. 443-446). New York:
W. W. Norton & Company.
• Dollar, D. (2010). Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality
since 1980. In J. A. Frieden, D. A. Lake, & J. L. Broz (Eds.),
International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and
Wealth (Fifth ed., pp. 447-467). New York: W. W. Norton &
Company.
• Acemoglu, D. (2010). Root Causes: A Historical Approach to
Assessing the Role of Institutions in Economic Development. In J.
A. Frieden, D. A. Lake, & J. L. Broz (Eds.), International
Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth (Fifth
ed., pp. 468-473). New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
6. Research design workshop
7. Assessing debt relief and budget support
• Caputo, E., Kemp, A. d., & Lawson, A. (2011).
Assessing the impacts of budget support: Case studies in Mali,
Tunisia and Zambia. In OECD-DAC (Ed.), Evaluation Insights (Vol.
2). Paris: OECD-DAC.
• Cassimon, D., & Campenhout, B. v. (2007). Aid
Effectiveness, Debt Relief and Public Finance Response: Evidence
from a Panel of HIPC Countries. REview of World Economics, 143(4),
742-763.
• Cordella, T., & Dell'Ariccia, G. (2007). Budget
Support versus Project Aid: A Theoretical Appraisal. The Economic
Journal, 117(523), 1160-1279.
• Haan, A. d., & Everest-Phillips, M. (2010). Can New Aid
Modalities Handle Politics? Foreign Aid for Development: Issues,
challanges, and the new agenda (pp. 197-221). Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
8. Aid on environment
• Chen, L.-C. (2013). International aid for wildlife
conservation and local sustainable livelihood: The case of Caohai
wildlife protection area in China. In A. Mori (Ed.), Environmental
Governance for Sustainable Development: East Asian perspectives
(pp. 143-163). Tokyo: United Nations University.
• Hicks, R. L., Parks, B. C., Roberts, J. T., & Tierney,
M. J. (2008). From Rio to Greneagles: Has Aid Been Greened?
Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development
Assistance (pp. 1-19). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Hicks, R. L., Parks, B. C., Roberts, J. T., & Tierney,
M. J. (2008). Billions for the Earth? Patterns of Environmental
Assistance Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of
Development Assistance (pp. 20-53). Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
• van den Berg, Rob. D. (2014). A global public goods
perspective on environment and poverty. In J. I. Uitto (Ed.),
Evaluating Environment in International Development (pp. 17-36).
New York: Routledge.
9. Guest lecture
10. Aid fragmentation
• Anderson, E. (2012). Aid fragmentation and donor
transaction costs. Economic Letters, 117(2012), 799-802.
• Frot, E., & Santiso, J. (2009). Crushed Aid:
Fragmentation in Sectoral Aid. In SITE Stockholm Institute of
Transition Economics (Ed.), SITE Working Paper (Vol. 6). Stockholm:
Stockholm School of Economics.
• Kimura, H., Sawada, Y., & Mori, Y. (2007). Aid
Proliferation and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis RIETI
Discussion Paper Series (07-E-044): Research Institute of Economy,
Trade & Industry.
• Knack, S., & Rahman, A. (2007). Donor fragmentation and
bureaucratic quality in aid recipients. Journal of development
economics, 83(2007), 176-197.
• Knack, S., & Smets, L. (2012). Aid Tying and Donor
Fragmentation. World Development, 44(2013), 63-76.
• Schulpen, L., Loman, B., & Kinsbergen, S. (2011). Worse
than expected? A comparative analysis of donor proliferation and
aid fragmentation. Public Administration and Development, 31(2011),
321-339.
11. Evaluating aid
• Hansen, H. F. (2005). Choosing Evaluation Models: A
Discussion on Evaluation Design. Evaluation, 11(4), 447-462.
• Hatry, H. P. (2013). Sorting the relationships among
performance measurement, program evaluation, and performance
management. In S. B. Nielsen & D. E. K. Hunter (Eds.),
Performance management and evaluation: New Directions for
Evaluation: Wiley Online.
• OECD. (2010). Better Aid: Evaluation in Development
Agencies. Paris: OECD Publishing.
12. Emerging donors
• Brautigam, D. (2009). The Changing Face of Chinese
Engagement in Africa The Dragon's Gift: The real story of China
in Africa (pp. 1-21). Oxford: OUP.
• Carvalho, P. A. R., Kim, H.-s., & Potter, D. M. (2012).
Aid to Africa from Japan, Korea and China: Ideology, Economic
Interests, and Poverty Reduction. In H.-s. Kim & D. M. Potter
(Eds.), Foreign Aid Competition in Northeast Asia. Sterling: Stylus
Publishing.
• Kuik, C.-C. (2015). An Emerging 3rd Pillar in Asian
Architecture? AIIB and Other China-led Initiatives. Asia Pacific
Bulletin(March 26, 2015).
• Sato, J., Shiga, H., Kobayashi, T., & Kondoh, H. (2011).
"Emerging Donors" from a Recipient Perspective: An
Institutional Analysis of Foreign Aid in Cambodia. World
Development, 39(12), 2091-2104.
• Watanabe, S. (2013). Donor's impact on China: How have
major donors affected China's economic development and foreign
aid policy? In J. Sato & Y. Shimomura (Eds.), The Rise of Asian
Donors: Japan's impact on the evolution of emerging donors (pp.
87-113). Oxon: Routledge.
13. Research design workshop
14. Summary
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 28
- Course Preparation
- 50
- Exam
- 48
- Exam Preparation
- 20
- Exercises
- 30
- Preparation
- 30
- Total
- 206
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written examinationWritten
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- External censorship
Criteria for exam assesment
- Grade 12 is given for an outstanding performance: the student lives up to the course's goal description in an independent and convincing manner with no or few and minor shortcomings
- Grade 7 is given for a good performance: the student is confidently able to live up to the goal description, albeit with several shortcomings
- Grade 02 is given for an adequate performance: the minimum acceptable performance in which the student is only able to live up to the goal description in an insecure and incomplete manner
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- ASTK15399U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterBachelor
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 4
- Schedule
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- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Department of Political Science, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Political Science
Course responsibles
- Aki Tonami
(10-66706e3379747366726e45736e667833707a336970)
Course Coordinator: Anders Berg-Sørensen