TY - JOUR
T1 - Foreign Aid Reciprocity Agreements
T2 - Committing Developing Countries to Improve the Effectiveness of Aid When They Become Donors
AU - Skladany, Martin
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42 Kenny (2011), supra note 19, p. 27. 43 Given that the idea of aid best practices regarding aid centers on the delivery of the aid, not on what the funds will be used for, there are only so many conceivable best practices. Yet for the sake of brevity and concentrating on aid reciprocity agreements instead of which best practices are most important, nothing approaching a comprehensive list will be discussed. 44 A. Harmer and D. Basu Ray, Study on the Relevance and Applicability of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in Humanitarian Assistance (Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute, London, 2009), p. 1. 45 Ibid. 46 The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness: Five Principles for Smart Aid (OECD, Paris, 2005). 47 Not only are there dozens of developed countries that have aid agencies, a country like the United States will have a dozen different actors providing aid – e. g. the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Inter-American Foundation, the U.S. African Development Foundation, and depending on how one views their activities, the Peace Corps, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Tarnoff and Lawson (2016), supra note 5, pp. 21–24.
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PY - 2017/9/26
Y1 - 2017/9/26
N2 - Existing best practices for aid delivery are well known and largely uncontroversial but often neglected by bilateral and multilateral aid agencies because of domestic political considerations and bureaucratic resistance. Developing countries should unilaterally ratify an agreement committing them, in the future, after they have experienced sustained and robust economic, social, and political development, to establish their own foreign aid programs that follow existing best practices for aid delivery. Such foreign aid reciprocity agreements would have numerous benefits, including: being an international tool to signal a developing country's resolve to reform and a domestic tool to pressure corrupt public officials to improve; enabling developing countries to take a leadership position in international development discourses; putting pressure on developed countries to implement best practices; and encouraging other developing countries to support and eventually adopt aid reciprocity agreements, which would lead to an increase in the amount of aid in the future. Furthermore, the idea of unilateral reciprocity agreements could potentially be expanded to areas of international interaction beyond foreign aid such as finance, trade, security, technology transfer, migration, and environmental policies.
AB - Existing best practices for aid delivery are well known and largely uncontroversial but often neglected by bilateral and multilateral aid agencies because of domestic political considerations and bureaucratic resistance. Developing countries should unilaterally ratify an agreement committing them, in the future, after they have experienced sustained and robust economic, social, and political development, to establish their own foreign aid programs that follow existing best practices for aid delivery. Such foreign aid reciprocity agreements would have numerous benefits, including: being an international tool to signal a developing country's resolve to reform and a domestic tool to pressure corrupt public officials to improve; enabling developing countries to take a leadership position in international development discourses; putting pressure on developed countries to implement best practices; and encouraging other developing countries to support and eventually adopt aid reciprocity agreements, which would lead to an increase in the amount of aid in the future. Furthermore, the idea of unilateral reciprocity agreements could potentially be expanded to areas of international interaction beyond foreign aid such as finance, trade, security, technology transfer, migration, and environmental policies.
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U2 - 10.1515/ldr-2017-0025
DO - 10.1515/ldr-2017-0025
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85031328846
SN - 1943-3867
VL - 10
SP - 577
EP - 608
JO - Law and Development Review
JF - Law and Development Review
IS - 2
ER -