This study is concerned with the impact of foreign aid on development in third world countries. It focuses particularly on the negative impact of aid on recipient countries in a case study of Bangladesh. The Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) is a part of aid conditionalities…
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This research project examines democracy and donors in Indonesia. It relies heavily on the regime transitions literature, and yet makes two departures from earlier literature. The first departure is to adopt a conceptualization of democracy that focuses neither on the formal ins…
The first essay of the dissertation assesses the relationship between foreign financial aid and recipients' aggregate investment. Plagued by a difficult endogeneity problem, the literature has grappled with identifying instrumental variables that are uncorrelated with economic a…
This dissertation focuses on external factors that influence the sustainability of a development assistance project (KIMEP) in the nation of Kazakhstan. I argue that ethno-political factors couple with presidential compliance dynamics are strong indicators of whether or not an i…
This dissertation identifies the design, purpose, and reception of two volunteer aid organizations, and examines whether any similarities and differences may be attributed to the project sponsor's geo-political designation as part of the global North or global South. Various sch…
American agricultural surpluses prompted the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration to approve Public Law 480, which provided a mechanism for the dispersal of food products through the use of outright grants or concessional sales to foreign governments. Presidents John F. Kennedy a…
Are peace and security simply commodities for sale? While a great deal of International Relations literature is devoted to negative and punitive policy instruments like the use of force and economic sanctions, not enough attention has been given to the role of positive tools. Th…
This dissertation comprises three essays that inquire into the effects of foreign aid in Bangladesh. The first two essays quantify the effects of aid on several key macroeconomic and fiscal variables, while the third essay examines the incongruencies between the traditional sect…
In contrasting the political trajectories of two post-Soviet Central Asian states this study addresses one of the defining questions of political science: what factors shape regime change? Despite their shared seven decades of Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has, since communism's colla…
Why did Japan conduct its own independent economic development policies in Asia, although Japan's other foreign policies were greatly influenced by the external environment, especially, the United States? Why did Japan's colonial policy and its Official Development Assistance (O…
Since the turn of the millennium fragile, conflict-affected states (FCAS) have grown to constitute a significant issue within European discourse. The spill-over of their 'complex political emergencies' is destabilising, as epitomised by the 9/11 attacks. Bush's 'war on terrorism…
Globalization in general and economic globalization in particular, as operated through the agencies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and Multinational Corporations (MNCs) is seen as a "saviour" (mostly by the developed countries) necessary for the attainm…
Although the end of the Cold War has led to the cessation of the global East-West arms race of the era, however, military conflicts or arms buildups at local and regional levels have continued unabated. Well-known examples of regional antagonism include Israel and Arab countries…
This thesis consists of three essays, investigating questions in development and labor economics. The first two essays analyze different issues relating to non-governmental organizations (NGOs). During the past 30 years, NGOs have become key players in international relief and d…
The following three essays deal with issues in development economics, political economy, and corporate finance. In the first essay, we wish to understand whether foreign aid been effective in stimulating growth, or just government spending. We use yearly variations in the price …
While governance has traditionally been the realm of states, new "Emerging Political Complexes," as Mark Duffield calls them, incorporate networks of public and private actors. These networks of governance come in two competing ideal types: a) strategic-commercial complexes, sha…
This dissertation considers three issues in development and international economics: the distribution of food aid in Rural Ethiopia, the effectiveness of development aid, and the effect of preferential trade agreements on multilateral trade liberalization. The first part of this…
Although Egypt, Jordan, South Korea, and Taiwan collectively account for about 12 percent of total US bilateral aid disbursed since the Second World War, no existing theory or approach to the study of foreign aid can explain varying degrees of aid's institutional efficacy in the…
In the face of pressure from transnational social groups and increasingly influential human rights organizations the international community has quietly introduced provisions into four global human rights treaties that challenge the received wisdom in international relations. Th…