DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Official Development Assistance, Colombo Plan, Devs
10 Mar 2018
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Today"s topics: official and informal formal aid, history of canadian foreign aid, mixed motivations (mixed interests, humanitarian /conditionality"s /political interests, colombo plan, humane internationalism, structural adjustment, securitization. Foreign aid: transfer of resources from one country to another to assist in development" or other forms of humanitarian need; some forms of military aid. (informal foreign aid and official foreign aid) Informal foreign aid: missionaries and some ngos, remittances (transfer of money, person working in host country to send money back to home country, Theses forms of unofficially foreign aid do not show up in oecd statistics or amounts, as they are outside of those channels. Aid for military use without oda (official development assistance) (grey area, depending on how you define military use): canada is criticized for the lack of oda they gave. Aid that is given by donors directly to developing countries (often state to state). Western countries do so as part of oecd-dac.
