CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Halimova, Dursunjemal |
|---|---|
| Title | The Puzzle of Aid Targeting:The Case of Turkmenistan |
| Summary | The motivations of development donors to provide aid were always puzzling. Many scholars and policy makers in the field have hoped that the end of the Cold War period world division and struggle for power would redefine the way development assistance was targeted. Nevertheless, today’s aid allocation has not changed much as it is still vulnerable to political, economic and security interests of donor governments. In order to examine donor motivations to provide aid, this thesis uses the following alternative explanations: donors provide aid because of - (1) the need in recipient countries; improvements in good governance indicators; (3) energy needs of the donor, and (4) security needs of the donor. Given the developing nature, the need for reform, rich resource base and proximity to terrorist training camps make Turkmenistan a good case study for this research. The combination of qualitative and semi-quantitative statistical analysis showed that bilateral donors, such as the EU and U.S base their decisions to provide development assistance to Turkmenistan on their energy and security interests. Moreover, unlike the EU, the U.S. also altered its development assistance based on Turkmenistan’s economic growth and performance on selected governance indicators. |
| Supervisor | Cristina Corduneanu-Huci |
| Department | School of Public Policy MPA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/halimova_dursunjemal.pdf |
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