<p>Bachelor essay in political science by Linus Johansson, fall of 2006</p><p>“Aid and corruption: How do aid donors handle the corrupt regimes?”.</p><p>Supervisor: Jan Olsson.</p><p>The purpose of this essay is to describe the aid relation between donors and corrupt</p><p>governments, to find out whether donors reckon on the problems with implementation of aid</p><p>to corrupt governments when they decree their aid policy. There are a lot of different ways to</p><p>implement the economic aid that are being used by the donors today, and this essay will try to</p><p>exemplify the different methods of implementing the economic aid. To elucidate the relation</p><p>between donors and corrupt regimes, the essay analyzes three themes: the first two questions</p><p>are about the policies used by the donors, and the third question are used to shed light on the</p><p>actual implementation of aid to corrupt governments. The three themes are: i) Different aid</p><p>policies used by the donors ii) Do donors use particular policies against corrupt regimes? iii)</p><p>Do corrupt regimes receive less foreign aid? This study stresses the fact that donors do not</p><p>act like a group unit in the matter of development assistance policy, instead they act in</p><p>several separate groups, this may complicate the endeavour of making economic aid effective.</p><p>The conclusion of the essay is that corrupt governments are treated the same way that lesscorrupted</p><p>government are, nothing today indicates that donors would give less economic aid</p><p>to the corrupt regimes. This is interesting considering that donors outwards maintain the</p><p>importance of rewarding good institutions, that signifies that those who in practice does not</p><p>attach great importance in this matter does not fulfil their own policies. It is an important</p><p>issue because corruption seems to debilitate the effects of development assistance, but</p><p>development assistance having problem of debilitate the corruption in the recipients’</p><p>countries.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:oru-1019 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Johansson, Linus |
| Publisher | Örebro University, Department of Social and Political Sciences |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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