International Aid Transparency Initiative

The Effects of War and Peace on Foreign Aid SOC 300 Submitted to: Prof. Bernard Curry Feb. 11, 2014 Submitted by: Roberto Tan III SU200096169 There so much said and written about foreign aid that it has become difficult to justify its effectiveness. But if we look at the overall picture in the eye of citizens of a developing country, an honest assessment might conclude that progress has been made. Though, profound social disparities and extreme poverty are still lurking in some

LICs, can only develop if they receive aid from already developed countries; HICs. I shall be weighing up both the benefits of aid and it downfalls, as well as the possibilities presented through trade alone. Is it easier for an LIC to develop through aid or by letting itself trade its way forward? With two thirds of the world being made up by LICs, economic growth, the increase in output of goods and services that a country produces

poor fiscal policies that have placed the government into deep debt and caused extensive depreciation of their currency. Other economic issues that Ghana faces due to large amounts of foreign aid are inflation and Dutch disease. Their Central Bank has been unable to efficiently regulate the flow for aid to the country, which results in uncontrolled inflation. Dutch disease has been an issue for them due to the market for oil that began expanding in 2010. Their poor infrastructure and the struggle

exporters of crude oil in the world, while maintaining its stature as a perennial leader of the United Nations Human Development Index. In this way, natural resource curse did not appear to be unavoidable. Global Approaches to Resource Curse and Transparency The widespread of negative impact of natural resource abundance lead the world to explore possible ways to tackle the problems effectively and turn these resources into the welfare of countries. The new conventional view is that the resource curse

TRANSPARENCY OF DONOR AID AS A KEY FACTOR IN ENHANCING DEVELOPMENT: CASE STUDY OF KENYA   DECLARATION I declare that this project paper is my own work, done with my own ideas. It has not been presented by any other person before it is through my creation of time and effort. Signature: .........................................................................Date....................................... Name: Signature: .........................................................................Date

communities by promoting awareness of corruption within individuals, C. Instill an anti-corruption culture within the youth to: i. Alleviate corruption in their country, ii. Reduce cases of corruption; D. Be funded and managed through Transparency International (TI), 2. Encourages the implementation of the Corruption Awareness Program (CAP) within developing

on international aid organizations to deliver some basic services and necessities that the government is not able to. In the wake of the 2010 earthquake and the subsequent cholera outbreak, Haiti needed aid organizations more than ever, so much so that the aid community unintentionally gained political power. Recently, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stalled an economic aid package bound for Haiti due to the postponement of elections. The IMF did not think it was prudent to disburse aid to

Bono, an Irish venture capitalist and philanthropist, once stated, “The biggest disease is corruption. The vaccine is transparency.” Unfortunately, Latin American and Caribbean states became infected after the end of colonialism in the 1800’s, and not a single Latin American or Caribbean state has cured itself. On 25 January 2017, Transparency International, an anti-corruption NGO, released its 2016 edition of the Corruption Perceptions Index, which revealed that the average score on the Index for

stability, legislative frameworks, and macroeconomic and financial Synonyms. The IMF relies on independent external and internal evaluations to assess the effectiveness of its technical assistance and training. MF surveillance is IMF oversees the International monetary

construction of nuclear power stations does not also emit much CO2 such since other sources of energy are used in powering the instruments used. The UAE has embarked on the construction of nuclear energy plant in a close construction with the International atomic agency. This decision was meant to substitute the already existing gas and oil that are being used by the large population percentage. The rate of electricity demand is growing by 9% and the statistics indicate that the country will require