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Development assistance is one of the most important tools in any country's foreign policy. Saudi Arabia's multilateral and bilateral development and cultural assistance to sub-Saharan African countries is a faith-based assistance model to be emulated by other Muslim countries. T…

This grounded theory-building dissertation targets the international effort to rebuild, transition and develop Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war. Hundreds of development organizations operate in Bosnia, linked in complex ways through interdisciplinary tasks and overlapping ma…

This thesis examines the primary principles of Japan's development assistance - jijo, meaning self-help. Japan's development assistance is most commonly presented as economic cooperation, and much less is understood about its social and human development programmes at the commun…

This dissertation explores the ineffectiveness of development assistance as an intervention into a complex system, and makes a contribution in explaining how and why this is so. Specifically, this issue is explored within a charity-philanthropy context. As the build component of…