Friday, December 15, 2006
[IWS] OECD: U.S. Development Assistance Programs OVERVIEW & FINDINGS [15 December 2006]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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United States (2006), DAC Peer Review: Main Findings and Recommendations [15 December 2006]
Review of the Development Co-operation Policies and Programmes of United States
http://www.oecd.org/document/27/0,2340,en_2649_34603_37829787_1_1_1_1,00.html
US Aid at a Glance
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/30/1860571.gif
[tables and charts]
See press release at
http://www.oecd.org/document/27/0,2340,en_2649_201185_37838171_1_1_1_1,00.html
[excerpt]
Overall framework and new orientation
The United States is a leader in international development co operation because of the large size of its economy, its ability to influence global action and its presence within the international donor community. It is the largest donor in the DAC. Historically, the US has justified its development assistance policies in terms of both recipient country needs and its own foreign policy objectives. The events of 11 September 2001 and the "War on Terror" which grew from them have provided the starting point for a renewed American interest in development co operation. Since that time, the government has used the logic of national security to resuscitate the image of development co operation with Congress and the American public. A variety of policy statements has helped to define the role of development in relation to this national security perspective. Prominent among them, the National Security Strategies of 2002 and 2006 have moved the United States in significant new directions since the 2002 DAC Peer Review.
Clarifying US development strategy with poverty reduction as the starting point
The US National Security Strategy raises development to the status of one of three pillars of national foreign policy, along with diplomacy and defence (the 3Ds). Building on this strategic perspective, the Department of State has shaped a policy of Transformational Diplomacy, aimed at working "with our many partners around the world to build and sustain democratic, well governed states that will respond to the needs of their people and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system." The extent to which this policy will translate into a clear vision of long term development on a par with diplomacy and defence, or whether development will remain primarily as a tool to support other priority political goals remains to be seen.
AND MUCH MORE....
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
United States (2006), DAC Peer Review: Main Findings and Recommendations [15 December 2006]
Review of the Development Co-operation Policies and Programmes of United States
http://www.oecd.org/document/27/0,2340,en_2649_34603_37829787_1_1_1_1,00.html
US Aid at a Glance
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/30/1860571.gif
[tables and charts]
See press release at
http://www.oecd.org/document/27/0,2340,en_2649_201185_37838171_1_1_1_1,00.html
[excerpt]
Overall framework and new orientation
The United States is a leader in international development co operation because of the large size of its economy, its ability to influence global action and its presence within the international donor community. It is the largest donor in the DAC. Historically, the US has justified its development assistance policies in terms of both recipient country needs and its own foreign policy objectives. The events of 11 September 2001 and the "War on Terror" which grew from them have provided the starting point for a renewed American interest in development co operation. Since that time, the government has used the logic of national security to resuscitate the image of development co operation with Congress and the American public. A variety of policy statements has helped to define the role of development in relation to this national security perspective. Prominent among them, the National Security Strategies of 2002 and 2006 have moved the United States in significant new directions since the 2002 DAC Peer Review.
Clarifying US development strategy with poverty reduction as the starting point
The US National Security Strategy raises development to the status of one of three pillars of national foreign policy, along with diplomacy and defence (the 3Ds). Building on this strategic perspective, the Department of State has shaped a policy of Transformational Diplomacy, aimed at working "with our many partners around the world to build and sustain democratic, well governed states that will respond to the needs of their people and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system." The extent to which this policy will translate into a clear vision of long term development on a par with diplomacy and defence, or whether development will remain primarily as a tool to support other priority political goals remains to be seen.
AND MUCH MORE....
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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