Abstract
Existing best practices for aid delivery are well known and largely uncontroversial but often neglected by bilateral and multilateral aid agencies because of domestic political considerations and bureaucratic resistance. Developing countries should unilaterally ratify an agreement committing them, in the future, after they have experienced sustained and robust economic, social, and political development, to establish their own foreign aid programs that follow existing best practices for aid delivery. Such foreign aid reciprocity agreements would have numerous benefits, including: being an international tool to signal a developing country’s resolve to reform and a domestic tool to pressure corrupt public officials to improve; enabling developing countries to take a leadership position in international development discourses; putting pressure on developed countries to implement best practices; and encouraging other developing countries to support and eventually adopt aid reciprocity agreements, which would lead to an increase in the amount of aid in the future. Furthermore, the idea of unilateral reciprocity agreements could potentially be expanded to areas of international interaction beyond foreign aid such as finance, trade, security, technology transfer, migration, and environmental policies.
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- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Law and Development as a Field of Study: Connecting Law with Development
- Development and the Rule of Law
- Human Rights for Women in Liberia (and West Africa): Integrating Formal and Informal Rule of Law Reforms through the Carter Center’s Community Justice Advisor Project
- Overcoming Extreme Poverty by Social Protection Floors – Approaches to Closing the Right to Social Security Gap
- Profit, Persuasion, and Fidelity: Why People Follow the Rule of Law
- Justice and the Common Good in Dispute Resolution Discourse in the United States and the People’s Republic of China
- Developmental State
- The Power to Judge, the Power to Act: the Argentine Supreme Court as a Policymaker
- Developmental State No Birth Right: South Africa’s Post-1994 Economic Development Story
- Development and Environment
- Multilateral Development Banks and Sustainable Development: On Emulation, Fragmentation and a Common Law of Sustainable Development
- Environmental Degradation and Economic Development in China: An Interrelated Governance Challenge
- Trade, Investment, and Regional Integration
- The (mis)use of development in international investment law: understanding the jurist’s limits to work with development issues
- Corruption and Development
- Creating an anti-corruption norm in Africa: Critical reflections on legal instrumentalization for development
- Clientelism, Law and Politics. Considerations in the Light of the Argentine Case
- Rising Issues
- The Role of Copyright in Creative Industry Development
- Foreign Aid Reciprocity Agreements: Committing Developing Countries to Improve the Effectiveness of Aid When They Become Donors
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