Aid, planning and development in the South Pacific
Aid, planning and development in the South Pacific
Increasing awareness of distinct inequality between developed and underdeveloped countries has been dominating world powers' foreign policies since the 1930s. Foreign aid has been a strategic response to this critical policy issue. Subsequently, there has been a proliferation of donors and increasing volumes of aid from developed to underdeveloped countries. However, further concerns have been raised about the fundamental objective of aid and its developmental role in aid receiving countries. This concern is expressed and addressed no less vigorously in the South Pacific than elsewhere in the Third World.
A meeting between Pacific island governments and traditional donors in the region in 1991 acknowledged that substantial aid to the region has not been matched by raised standards of living or an improved level of development. This study investigates and explains this mismatching aid/development relationship. The fundamental hypothesis of this study suggests that the incompatible aid/development relationship in the region is rooted on one level in the dual contradictory purposes of aid. While aid is proclaimed to generate development in receiving countries, it is essentially a mechanism for economic and political investments for the donors, but one which is readily accepted by receiving island governments. On another level, receiving island governments are irreversibly dependent on aid to the extent that their objective is to attain as much aid as possible rather than to allocate and use aid effectively and efficiently for greater development impacts.
In this context, aid policies of donors and development objectives of receiving island governments are designed to serve their respective purposes. As a result, there is essentially a structural inconsistency between the overall aid and development objectives, aid policies, and development practices. The influences of this inconsistency on aid/development relationships in the South Pacific are demonstrated in this study. The development impacts of selected aid projects are evaluated against aid policy objectives and development practices. (DX178855)
University of Southampton
Tongamoa, Siupeli Taiamoni
0fad6103-128a-4832-91f1-caf6f525a7b8
1993
Tongamoa, Siupeli Taiamoni
0fad6103-128a-4832-91f1-caf6f525a7b8
Tongamoa, Siupeli Taiamoni
(1993)
Aid, planning and development in the South Pacific.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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Increasing awareness of distinct inequality between developed and underdeveloped countries has been dominating world powers' foreign policies since the 1930s. Foreign aid has been a strategic response to this critical policy issue. Subsequently, there has been a proliferation of donors and increasing volumes of aid from developed to underdeveloped countries. However, further concerns have been raised about the fundamental objective of aid and its developmental role in aid receiving countries. This concern is expressed and addressed no less vigorously in the South Pacific than elsewhere in the Third World.
A meeting between Pacific island governments and traditional donors in the region in 1991 acknowledged that substantial aid to the region has not been matched by raised standards of living or an improved level of development. This study investigates and explains this mismatching aid/development relationship. The fundamental hypothesis of this study suggests that the incompatible aid/development relationship in the region is rooted on one level in the dual contradictory purposes of aid. While aid is proclaimed to generate development in receiving countries, it is essentially a mechanism for economic and political investments for the donors, but one which is readily accepted by receiving island governments. On another level, receiving island governments are irreversibly dependent on aid to the extent that their objective is to attain as much aid as possible rather than to allocate and use aid effectively and efficiently for greater development impacts.
In this context, aid policies of donors and development objectives of receiving island governments are designed to serve their respective purposes. As a result, there is essentially a structural inconsistency between the overall aid and development objectives, aid policies, and development practices. The influences of this inconsistency on aid/development relationships in the South Pacific are demonstrated in this study. The development impacts of selected aid projects are evaluated against aid policy objectives and development practices. (DX178855)
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Published date: 1993
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