Between Export Promotion and Poverty Reduction : The Foreign Economic Policy of Untying Official Development Assistance

The end of the Cold War has prompted many donors of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to fundamentally realign their global aid and trade relations. Despite recent progress in untying ODA and a number of related efforts to enhance the overall efficiency of international cooperation with the poorest countries, it remains unexplained why some OECD states have liberalised their bilateral programmes to a considerable extent - whereas others have continued to use foreign aid as a means to promote domestic exports. Jan-Henrik Petermann widens the scope of previous macro-analyses of 'system-driven' reorientations in tying practices in the wake of 1989/90, inquiring into donors' national parameters of policy-making at the strategic nexus between external trade and international development. -- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 29-52 The Tying of Aid as a Contemporary Phenomenon in Development Economics and Policy: Some Key Definitions and Stylised Facts....Pages 53-87 Causes and Consequences of Aid Tying: a Survey of Theoretical Arguments and Empirical Results from Institutional Economics,Foreign Policy Analysis and Development Theory....Pages 89-120 Theoretical Framework: Contending Approaches to the Study of Bilateral Aid Relations in the Post-Cold War International System....Pages 121-146 Between Systemic Pressures and Domestic Preferences: Explaining the Shifting Aid Allocations of OECD Donors on an Aggregate Level....Pages 147-243 Between Export Promotion and Poverty Reduction: Understanding the Selective Untying of Aid within the Political and Socioeconomic Contexts of Single OECD Donor Countries....Pages 245-382 Tracing Change in Aid Politics on the Systemic and Domestic Levels: a Comparative Reassessment of Exogenous and Endogenous Influences on National Development Regimes and Procurement Strategies....Pages 383-404 Conclusion: from ‘Selfish Donors’ to ‘Good International Citizens’?....Pages 405-423 Back Matter....Pages 10-10