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Development Aid: What If We Need to Re-Think the Concept?

... inequalities, which questions the philanthropy of states. A failure according to a constructivist approach or an unsurprising scenario for realists. Looking at this situation through an academic lens leads us to the concept of official development assistance (ODA). This somehow refers to the idea of “state philanthropy”, which is, of course, and without being naïve, not detached from each state’s global influence policy. Assistance is not free, either for donors or for recipients. The concept originally ...

28.12.2021

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Passing the Test of the Covid Pandemic

... and efforts to undermine trust in the vaccines created in “competitor countries”. There is also a lot more that the international community could do to provide assistance to the least-developed economies. In 2020, official development assistance (ODA) by member countries of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) (comprises developed economies, including the EU and the United States) amounted to USD 161.2 billion, representing 0.32% of their combined GNI. Initial estimates indicate that within ...

30.07.2021

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