DVM 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Canadian International Development Agency, Good Governance, Development Assistance Committee

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 2105
• Professor: Paul Haslam

Document Summary

Bilateral aid: aid from a single donor country to a single recipient country, govt to govt aid. Donors: providers of development assistance, although lenders may be a more appropriate term in cases where the aid in in the form of loans. Multilateral aid: aid provided by a group of countries, or an institution representing a group of countries such as the. World bank, to one or more recipient countries. Dac: most industrialized that provide foreign aid belong to a donor"s (cid:272)lu(cid:271) k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as the de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t assista(cid:374)(cid:272)e committee. Do(cid:374)ors (cid:272)ut their aid i(cid:374) the early a(cid:374)d (cid:373)id (cid:1005)99(cid:1004)"s, a period of aid fatigue. Relative generosity is normally calculated by dividing oda by gross national income (gini), gross national product (gnp) or gross domestic (gdp), which provide almost identical figures. There are numerous reasons why donors provide development assistance. One of them and for many, is simply to help the less fortunate abroad.