Defining the Scope of Aid Reduction and Its Challenges for Civil Society Organizations

Laying the Foundation for New Theory

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12250428
AutoresChristopher L Pallas (0000-0001-9323-7696, autor correspondente), Christopher Pallas, Quinn Anderson, Mark Sidel (0000-0001-9800-3215)
Ano2017
Volume29
Fascículo2
Páginas256-270
Data de publicação2017-07-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoVoluntas Revista Internacional de Filosofia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2179-3786 • E-ISSN: 1573-7888
EditoraSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s11266-017-9891-8
OpenAlexW2735769188
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas40

Much of the literature on local civil society organizations and foreign aid focuses on the short-term consequences of funding cycles and contract conditions, but treats foreign aid at the macrolevel like a largely stable condition, as though countries receiving foreign aid will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Empirical evidence of aid reduction, however, suggests that this approach neglects long-term phenomena. This article examines aid patterns on a global scale and explores their potential consequences for civil society organizations. Working from World Bank data, we identify general patterns in country-level aid reduction. We examine the frequency of country-level aid reduction, the magnitude of reduction, its duration, and whether aid reduction tends to be rapid or gradual. Mapping these patterns establishes that country-level reductions in aid are a regularly occurring, global phenomenon. Moreover, even as global ODA levels increase, instances of country-level aid reduction are also increasing. Our findings lay the foundation for building new, generalizable theory about aid reduction and allow us to identify pressing questions about the consequences for civil society organizations in need of further research

Aid effectiveness · Business · Civil society · Developing country · Development aid · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Foundation (evidence · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Reduction (mathematics · Scope (computer science · Computer Science · International Development and Aid · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development