Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Buildinghttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/155802024-03-27T00:52:15Z2024-03-27T00:52:15ZStrategic aid allocation in the 21st century: lessons from the 1980?s and 1990Verschoor, Arjanhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/89232016-09-09T15:46:57Z2006-01-01T00:00:00ZStrategic aid allocation in the 21st century: lessons from the 1980?s and 1990
Verschoor, Arjan
An evaluation of recipient countries? experience with foreign aid in the
1980s and 90s shows that there is plenty of evidence that policy conditionality has
by and large failed, and that there is no evidence that the policy conditions attached
to aid have by and large been appropriate. In that light, is the currently advocated
move in aid allocation away from policy conditionality and towards selectivity and
recipient ownership of its reform programme therefore appropriate? The paper
argues that the evidence on aid effectiveness in the 1980s and 90s suggests
otherwise.
Read before the Society, 6 April 2006
2006-01-01T00:00:00ZImproving coherence between Irish trade and development policy from an African perspectiveMatthews, Alanhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/89222016-09-09T15:46:56Z2006-01-01T00:00:00ZImproving coherence between Irish trade and development policy from an African perspective
Matthews, Alan
The recent Irish Trade Policy Statement devoted a whole chapter to the trade needs
of developing countries (DETE, 2005). In it, the Government recognises the role
that trade policy can play in providing economic development opportunities to
emerging and poorer countries. It states that achieving the development dimension
of the WTO Doha Development Agenda is the most effective way of realizing that
ambition. The Statement confirms that Ireland wants to assist these countries to
shape the outcome of the Doha process in their interest and in a way that provides
the greatest opportunity for those in need.
Read before the Society, 6 April 2006
2006-01-01T00:00:00ZTrade and industryFitzpatrick, Jimhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/78222016-09-09T15:28:31Z1985-01-01T00:00:00ZTrade and industry
Fitzpatrick, Jim
This paper discusses trade aspects of Ireland's relations with Third World countries. As
implied in the overall title of the symposium, "Ireland, Europe and the Third World",
the topic is dealt with in a European Community (EC) setting. Such a setting is
particularly appropriate in the case of trade. Unlike the case of aid, dealt with in Helen
O'Neill's paper, Ireland does not have an independent bilateral trade policy regarding
developing countries. Such trade policy is essentially an EC matter. As will be clear in
subsequent sections of the paper, this country's membership of the Community is
therefore fundamental to the nature of our present and potential trade relationships with
the developing world. In discussing trade, the paper focuses principally on trade in
manufactured goods. Trade in agricultural products comes within the ambit of the
Common Agncultural Policy with which Alan Matthews is dealing.
Read before the Society, 28th March, 1985
1985-01-01T00:00:00ZThe question of aidO'Neill, Helenhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/72182016-09-09T15:28:32Z1985-01-01T00:00:00ZThe question of aid
O'Neill, Helen
The purpose of this paper is to describe very briefly what Ireland and its EC partners have
been doing in recent years and to raise some issues for discussion at this symposium
which are likely to be important over the next decade or two. The emphasis in the
descriptive sections is on the quantity of aid flows issues of quality and effectiveness
are not addressed statistically. The geographic focus is on the Afncan, Caribbean and
Pacific (ACP) group of LDCs and especially on Africa since this reflects the priorities
of both the Irish and EC aid programmes. The donor focus is on the official side. This
paper discusses government aid flows or official development assistance (ODA). It
alludes to private flows from nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and charitable
sources only in so far as they interface with official aid flows through co financing and
other arrangements.
Read before the Society, 28th March, 1985
1985-01-01T00:00:00Z