IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/eurjdr/v19y2007i4p614-635.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

International Development Aid and Its Impact on a Donor Country: A Case Study of Norway

Author

Listed:
  • Terje Tvedt

Abstract

This article argues that it is important to reconstruct and analyse how the international aid system that was established after the Second World War has impacted on the national histories of donor countries. The focus is on what has happened in Norway, using it as an example of how the relationship between national traditions and the international aid system can be studied. The article emphasises the need to develop concepts that can establish analytical distance to the normative and conceptual influence of the powerful rhetoric of the aid system. Based on very extensive empirical research of the Norwegian aid system over many years, the author presents a historical summary of his findings and a set of concepts developed in order to better grasp what has been happening; concepts like 'the southern political system', a national 'do-gooder's regime', a 'strategic communication regime', 'inside aiding', and 'elite circulation'. Cet article soutient qu'il est important d'établir et d'analyser la façon dont le système d'aide au développement, établi à la suite de la seconde guerre mondiale, a influencé l'histoire nationale des pays donateurs. L'étude prend comme exemple le cas de la Norvège pour démontrer la manière dont on peut étudier la relation entre les traditions nationales et l'aide internationale. Il souligne le besoin de formuler les concepts qui peuvent établir la distance analytique vis-à-vis de l'influence normative et conceptuelle de la rhétorique dominante du système d'aide elle-même. S'appuyant sur une recherche empirique très étendue du système norvégien d'aide sur plusieurs années, l'auteur présente un résumé de ses résultats dans une perspective historique. Il développe aussi un ensemble de concepts afin de mieux comprendre ce processus; des concepts tels que « le système politique du Sud », un régime national « bienfaiteur », un « régime de communication stratégique », un système d'aide endogène (« inside aiding »), de rotation des membres de l'élite (« elite circulation ») etc.

Suggested Citation

  • Terje Tvedt, 2007. "International Development Aid and Its Impact on a Donor Country: A Case Study of Norway," The European Journal of Development Research, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 19(4), pages 614-635.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjdr:v:19:y:2007:i:4:p:614-635
    DOI: 10.1080/09578810701667672
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&doi=10.1080/09578810701667672&magic=repec&7C&7C8674ECAB8BB840C6AD35DC6213A474B5
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/09578810701667672?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Molenaers, Nadia & Renard, Robrecht & Gagiano, Anna, 2013. "The Quest for Aid Complimentarity: Nordic+ Donors and NGO-cofunding Reforms," IOB Working Papers 2013.09, Universiteit Antwerpen, Institute of Development Policy (IOB).
    2. Kristine Hermanrud & Indra de Soysa, 2017. "Lazy thinking, lazy giving? Examining the effects of Norwegian aid on forests in developing countries," International Area Studies Review, Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, vol. 20(1), pages 19-41, March.
    3. Inken Reimer & Barbara Saerbeck, 2017. "Policy entrepreneurs in national climate change policy processes," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 35(8), pages 1456-1470, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:eurjdr:v:19:y:2007:i:4:p:614-635. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/FEDR20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.