The Trouble with Aid” Please respond to the following:
Based on the lecture, Webtext materials and outside research done on a specific developing country, address the following:
Please investigate the distribution of foreign aid funds in a specific developing country and report the discrepancies or issues that have arisen from the distribution. Consider these questions – Have there been any formal accusations concerning the distribution of funds? Do the discrepancies point to some form of governmental corruption or these discrepancies point to some serious ineffectiveness in government? Could it be a combination of both?
Here are some interesting websites for the week’s discussion:
International Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm
Criticisms of the IMF
http://www.globalexchange.org/resources/wbimf/oppose
World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/
Criticisms of the World Bank
http://www.globalization101.org/why-is-the-world-bank-controversial/
World Trade Organization
http://www.wto.org/
Criticisms of the WTO
http://www.globalexchange.org/resources/wto/oppose
Internal Critics of the World Bank and the IMF
https://www.globalpolicy.org/social-and-economic-policy/the-three-sisters-and-other-institutions/internal-critics-of-the-world-bank-and-the-imf.html
