How Does Official Development Aid Affect the Foreign Policy of the Recipient Country?
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2019-04
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The University of Tampa
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ODA is usually thought as a form of humanitarian aid from a developed country to a less developed country. The purpose of my research is to discover whether ODA manipulates change within the foreign policy of the recipient. My research is relevant and may help discover the real motive behind giving ODA thus, challenging the U.S. to give ODA according to need and not self-interest. I will perform a comparative case study analysis on three similar countries to better understand the U.S.’s distribution of ODA. In my research, I found that the U.S. does influence the recipient’s foreign policy. I also found that ODA can have no effect on the recipient country’s foreign policy. Therefore, whether the U.S.’s motives regarding ODA are all according to self-interest is inconclusive. Created for IST 470, under the direction of Prof. Denis Rey.
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Official development aid, Foreign policy, Donor country, Military accommodation, Voting coincidence, United Nations, Trade agreements