CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Barua, Arup |
|---|---|
| Title | The Role of Development Aid in Policy Diffusion: A Case Study on Gender Responsive Budgeting and Planning in Bangladesh |
| Summary | This study identifies how development aid can explain policy diffusion – a knowledge gap and aims to address an unexplored aspect of policy diffusion. This study focuses on an instrument centric analysis of policy diffusion while previous studies are mostly dominated by agency centric investigation. It considers that diverse actors adopt development aid as a mean to influence developing countries across the world which results in policy diffusion. Therefore, an inductive and qualitative case study research has been undertaken to investigate this relationship – which would further potentially contribute to theory building. Additionally, this study encourages other researchers to examine the testable hypothesis, proposed in this paper. This hypothesis postulates that unconditional development aid is likely to diffuse policies in a developing country, when three assumptions and conditions are fulfilled. These include policy coherence between global development agenda and national interest; national government’s support role and partnerships with other policy actors; and development partners tend to offer financial and technical assistance in the early stage of policy formulation. |
| Supervisor | Batory, Agnes; Apaydin, Fulya (IBEI) |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/barua_arup.pdf |
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