Foreign aid and its impact on governance in Nepal

Thapa, Narayan (2014): Foreign aid and its impact on governance in Nepal.

Abstract

The present study analyzes the impacts of aid conditionality on the country-possession part of governance in Nepal. From hypothetical viewpoint, the study is bound to survey three concerned ideas: (i) conceptualizing governance, (ii) understanding conditionality, and (iii) enhancing country-proprietorship. With a specific end goal to know the basic issues of country-possession in Nepal, the study audits three issues: (i) deliberations for enhancing governance in Nepal, (ii) a review of giver backing in governance change, and (iii) benefactor impact in national approach. The review information uncovers that all the governance-related conditionalities have been emphatically influencing for enhancing country-possession in Nepal. It was additionally distinguished that there is no connection between level of the authorization of aid conditionality and its impacts on the country-possession in benefactor financed exercises.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: governance, conditionality, aid, assistance.
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F6 - Economic Impacts of Globalization; F - International Economics > F6 - Economic Impacts of Globalization > F68 - Policy; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O2 - Development Planning and Policy > O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy

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