OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Norway 2013

OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Norway 2013
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2014-01-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9264196315

This book reviews development co-operation efforts of Norway over the past five years. It examines both policy and implementation and takes an integrated, system-wide perspective on Norway's development co-operation and humanitarian assistance activities.

Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid

Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid
Author: A. Maurits van der Veen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139503251

Why do countries give foreign aid? Although many countries have official development assistance programs, this book argues that no two of them see the purpose of these programmes in the same way. Moreover, the way countries frame that purpose has shaped aid policy choices past and present. The author examines how Belgium long gave aid out of a sense of obligation to its former colonies, The Netherlands was more interested in pursuing international influence, Italy has focused on the reputational payoffs of aid flows and Norwegian aid has had strong humanitarian motivations since the beginning. But at no time has a single frame shaped any one country's aid policy exclusively. Instead, analysing half a century of legislative debates on aid in these four countries, this book presents a unique picture both of cross-national and over time patterns in the salience of different aid frames and of varying aid programmes that resulted.

Development Aid to Nepal

Development Aid to Nepal
Author: Sven Cederoth Cederroth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135797803

An ongoing challenge for Western aid projects in the Third World is that all too often results do not meet expectations. Determined to address this issue at the outset before committing greater sums to its aid to Nepal, in 1996 the Norwegian Foreign Ministry commissioned an extensive analysis of development needs and concrete aid achievements for that country. Now substantially reworked and expanded with data not previously available to international scholars, this study of the energy, health and education sectors in Nepal - as well as the situation there of democracy and human rights - will be of especial interest to researchers and NGOs working in the area.

OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Norway 2019

OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Norway 2019
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9264511814

Norway’s commitment to spend 1% of gross national income on official development assistance is supported across the political spectrum. It increasingly uses multilateral channels to promote global public goods and address global challenges. This review looks at the changes to systems, structures and capabilities that would help Norway deliver on its shifting approach to development co-operation.

Norway’s EU Experience and Lessons for the UK

Norway’s EU Experience and Lessons for the UK
Author: John Erik Fossum
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2023-10-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1003808689

This book examines Norway’s affiliation to the EU and systematically assesses the potential suitability of this arrangement for the UK as a viable EU affiliation post-Brexit. Framing the book within the framework of the broader European context, the authors ask how much autonomy and room to manoeuvre tightly integrated non-member states have under this arrangement. They present an in-depth assessment of Norway’s close EU affiliation and provide insight into what this may reveal to us about the post-Brexit European political order. The book’s analytical framework centred on autonomy under complex interdependence has relevance well beyond the confines of the Norway case. This includes the UK, not least since the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) leaves considerable uncertainty. It contains transitory elements; there will be implementation reviews, and there may be many more bilateral and multilateral agreements before the trade relationship is fully defined. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, Norwegian politics, British politics, European integration, and, more broadly, to European studies and international relations.