"Foreign aid hasn't worked in the past only because not enough foreign aid was actually provided." With reference to this statement, critically assess one country's experiences of foreign aid since 1950. (original) (raw)

Role of foreign aid in developing Countries: A case study of Kenya (1990-2010)

2013

study presents an assessment of the role of foreign aid in developing countries, having This Kenya as the case study for the period between 1990-2010. Towards this assessment of the role of foreign aid, the study outlines three main objectives. The first objective is on finding out the role of foreign aid in Kenya’s economic development. Secondly, is on examining the contribution of foreign aid towards good governance, and thirdly, to find out the influence of foreign aid on foreign policy. In order to achieve this, the study is sub-divided into five chapters. Chapter one begins with giving an insight into foreign aid, giving a background on foreign aid operations in Africa. The chapter also, defines the research study and puts it into context through the introduction and background of study. This chapter also presents the Research Questions, the dependent variables, thesis, and hypothesis and the methodology and the literature review sections. The literature review was done with a ...

The Effectiveness of Aid to Kenya: A Case Study

IDS Bulletin, 1986

The Macroeconomic Context Kenya's is an open trading economy (exports plus imports were the equivalent of 70 per cent of GNP in 1970) and therefore heavily influenced by conditions over which the country has no control. The major net exports are overwhelmingly agricultural; little diversification has occurred over the past 30 years. Internally, Kenya operates a comparatively free market, but with heavy government involvement in many activities. Key functions, including the marketing of basic foods, are at least partly carried out by parastatals. The government 'owns shares in textiles, shoes, sugar, tyres, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, canning, mining salt, drilling, paper, hotels, cement, batteries, vehicles, radios, fishing, engineering, beverages and food processing' [Kenya Government 19821. The 1976/77 coffee boom caused the values of the main export to rise from US107mnin1975toUSUS 107 mn in 1975 to USUS107mnin1975toUS494 mn in 1977, and led government to undertake an ambitious programme of development expenditure and, on the implicit but false assumption that these high revenues would be sustained, to increase recurrent spending by means which included a decreed 10 per cent rise in public-sector employment in 1979. Kenya therefore had far to fall as a result of the 1979-8 1 oil price rise and the international recession. Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. The study on which this paper is based was carried out n 1983 in conjunction with Paul Mosley, University of Bath. The study set Out to assess the effectiveness of official multilateral and bilateral aid to Kenya over the past 10 years, using the criteria of economic growth and the alleviation of poverty. lt was based on a visit to Kenya of 3-4 weeks in 1984, during which time interviews were held with senior officials of relevant ministries, with the resident staff of major donors, and with field staff ofsome projects. Visits were also made to the headquarters of most major donors in Europe and North America. Cooperation from Government and donors was good in almost all cases. The many documents consulted, both internal and unrestricted, included those of the Kenya Government. together with many project papers and evaluation documents, and the country analyses prepared by several of the bigger donors.

International Development and bilateral aid to Kenya (2008)

This paper seeks to analyze a decade of international development in Kenya through the lens of a multi-sited and multi-level ethnographic analysis. It demonstrates the inherently messy and political nature of development as well as the need to analyze the social and cultural contexts in which policies are debated, negotiated, and implemented. An anthropological approach provides insight into the complexity of development policy and the unpredictability of development outcomes which are obscured by research that relies on policy texts and/or eschews empirical fieldwork.

Challenges of development in africa: a case study of the role of foreign assistance in kenya

2016

Foreign assistance is among the policy tools in International Politics and Diplomacy that developed countries use to help African countries to address their challenges in sustainable development, amidst the reality that aid to poorest countries is declining, stagnating or shifting allocation priorities in favour of middle income level countries. Many scholars have difficulty in finding a nexus between aid, growth and development, as the debate rages on whether foreign assistance has any impact, as Africa is caught up in poverty trap and remains behind the developing world, in spite of the massive foreign assistance support which is hailed as the solution to World poverty. However, there is strong thinking that foreign assistance works, where there are proper institutions of governance and leadership. The tools used in data collection in this study, included interview schedules, document reviews, and internet. Purposive sampling was used to identify key informants such as officials from the line Ministries and development partners. The targeted population comprised line Ministries, SAGAS and development partners. Analysis was done using frequency distributions, cross tabulations and weighted average measures, using Ms Excel and results put into descriptive statistics to present views of Government officers and development partners. The major findings of the study are that the challenges of development in Africa can be classified into political, social, economic and environment, and that foreign assistance has increased over the last 10 years, despite the raging debates on the impact. Measuring the impact of foreign assistance is not easy, because all conclusions on its effect economic growth are contestable. The study will be useful to the development practitioners both at national and county level who are involved in implementing Kenya"s Vision 2030, SDGs and Agenda 2063, and forms the basis for further research on how major development challenges can be overcome by strengthening foreign assistance, especially by the recipient and the donor. Some of the key recommendations include, Strengthening Leadership and Governance institutions, Growth

How Foreign Aid Affect Developing Countries: The Case of Ethiopia

Foreign aid has been an essential tool for the socio-economic development of developing countries since 1960s. It is described by OECD as the financial, technical assistance and commodity flow to the countries that are in the list of DAC (Development Assistance Committee). US’s Marshall Plan is a well-known development assistance program, which was established between 1948 and 1951 under the European Recovery Program to support Europe in economic crisis after a war became successful in reducing poverty while increasing economic growth. By taking the Marshall plan as a model, developed countries have been supporting the developing countries since then. Recently, the Millennium Development Goals was also launched in New York in 2000 to finance economic growth of poor countries. New actors from other parts of the world took their places in providing development assistance. Despite receiving more than 600 billion USD in the context of foreign aid, large part of Africa has still remained underdeveloped and in an extreme poverty. In this paper, we study the impacts of foreign aid to socio-economic development to Ethiopia. After reviewing the development and foreign aid literature from primary and secondary sources, this study benefited from data gathered from World Bank Database, Transparency International and Freedom House, and then time series data were evaluated by regression analysis. Our findings indicate that foreign aids do not have a major influence on GDP growth; but it has a considerable influence on FDI (foreign direct investment) and unemployment rate in Ethiopia. However, it is observed that foreign aid has negatively correlated with democracy and corruption levels in the country. Although, the amount of foreign aid has been continuously increasing, Ethiopia has remained one of the most corrupt and authoritarian African countries according to related indices. Consequently, our study concludes that foreign aid should be redesigned to encourage and reward receiving countries to advance their democracy and eliminate corruption within the context of recent philosophy and principle of collaborative governance for long term development.

Effect of Foreign Aid On poverty in Kenya

International Journal of Economics, Business and Management Research

This article investigates the effect of foreign aid on poverty in Kenya. Poverty has emerged as one of the main public concerns across the globe. Every year, the gap between rich and poor grows wider, and many countries' circumstances have deteriorated. In Kenya, the wealth disparity has reached extreme proportions, with less than 10% of the population owning more wealth than the bottom 90%. Kenya is a developing country that aims to be industrialized by 2030.Economic growth is expected to increase in order to achieve the vision 2030, so the government must also understand the trends, causes, and effects of poverty in order to formulate relevant policies to ensure equitable income distribution and high living standards by 2030.In order to establish the existing relationship, the study investigated the effect of foreign aid on poverty in Kenya. This study made use of time series data spanning from years 2010 to 2020. The study employed causal-effect research design to establish t...

Evaluating the impacts of foreign aid on low-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147- 4478)

Foreign aid comprises of a provision of financial resources or commodities such as food parcels or technical advice and training. The most prevalent type of foreign aid, particularly in developing countries, is Official Development Assistance (ODA) that strives to promote development and combat poverty. In Sub-Saharan Africa, there is a significant dependency on foreign aid which prompts the question; Is foreign aid completely necessary in developing African countries? With a high reliance on foreign aid the focus tends to shift from developing into self-sufficient economies and combating poverty to being dependent states. The paper explores the impact of foreign aid on the development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Because low-income countries are significantly reliant on aid, the study took a qualitative approach using the case study method featuring case studies from Kenya, Togo, and Zimbabwe. From the literature of the study, it is evident that the three countries had become dependent o...