POL 4170 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Ottawa, Development Assistance Committee, Canada
20 Nov 2018
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Oda: conventional foreign aid, oecd"s dac, committee of representatives that are representatives of dac, set the definition of what can qualify as oda, accounting exercise. Look how generous we are: symbolic, concessional aid, no strings attached, nor profiteering, as friendly as possible to recipients who are poor. Other forms of aid: military aid, humanitarian relief, conditional and unpredictable. In theory is ethically equal to oda: disconnected from oda b/c of its irregularity, relative to oda. Import/export credits: preferential access to markets if you agree to export products to us, technical or knowledge sharing, can be classified as oda depending on its purposes. billion flows from global north to the global south. Figure is even higher the other way around. Global integrity and centre for applied research (school of economics in norway) recently totalled all the financial resources transferred b/w poor and rich countries.
