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1 Behavior of Foreign Aid over a Quarter of a Century – Keshav Acharya THIS paper a� empts to examine the behavior of foreign aid with respect to its support to the na� onal budget, external economy, and the overall na� onal economy of Nepal over recent poli� cal phases of Nepal. For this purpose, the paper splits a span of 24 fi scal years (1986/87- 2009/10) into fi ve dis� nct poli� cal phases. It begins from the last fi ve years (1986/87-1990- 91) of the party-less Panchayat era (P). A mass poli� cal movement resulted in the restora� on of mul� -party democra� c parliamentary system in 1990 and adop� on of a new cons� tu� on and holding of the general elec� on in 1991.The paper classifi es 1991/92- 1995/96 as the post-democra� c era (PD). In 1996, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) [UCPN (M)] went underground and called for the capture of the state power by dint of arms. The confl ict lasted for over a decade. The paper classifi es armed-confl ict into Low-Intensity Confl ict (LIC, 1996/97-2000/2001) and High-Intensity Confl ict (HIC, 2001/02-2005-06). With the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between CPN (Maoists) and the pro-parliamentary seven party alliances and the consequent Madhesh uprising, all par� es agreed to restore the parliament that was dissolved by King Gyanendra in 2004, dra� an Interim Federal Democra� c Republican Cons� tu� on and form an all party government in 2006. Even a� er successful elec� on for a Cons� tuent Assembly in 2008, the people con� nue to endlessly wait for the conclusion of the peace process and a new cons� tu� on. Hence the period 2006/07- 2009/10 is described as a period of poli� cal transi� on (PT). There are certain caveats before proceeding. All the sta� s� cs used here are the average of the numbers of years in each phase, sum total of the fi ve Changing paradigms of aid eff ec� veness in Nepal 1
divided by fi ve. It is done because agreement on foreign aid, its disbursement to the government, the government’s spending of the aid money and fi nal reimbursement by the donor has been a lengthy bureaucra� c process. The averaging over the period is expected to normalize the impact of delay on agreement, commitment, disbursement, spending, and the outcomes. The paper doesn’t talk monotonously on ODA alone. As ODA, from both the donors’ and recipient’s perspec� ves, is geared to improving the socioeconomic life of the country and its ci� zens; the paper in the process related aid with various macroeconomic variables such as total expenditures and its components, revenue, domes� c borrowings, sources of foreign exchange earnings, debt burden, and its servicing and structural evolu� on of the Nepali economy over � me. Though drawing on the impact of external aid on poverty and equity is of interest and profound importance, this paper stops short of doing this due to the scope, space and � me constraints. It is empirically evident that in Nepal foreign aid is shrinking in rela� ve importance compared with the size of the total budget, domes� c revenue mobiliza� on, various sources of foreign exchange earnings and the GDP. The paper begins with the importance of foreign aid in the na� onal budget followed by its role in the external sectors of the economy. The third sec� on will briefl y touch upon the rela� ve role played by the foreign aid in the na� onal economy. Foreign Aid in the Na� onal Budget The table below makes a compara� ve assessment of the evolu� on of expenditure composi� on over � me and fi nancing structure of the budget in terms of revenue, foreign aid (decomposed into loans and grants), and domes� c borrowings. Here, foreign aid refers to the Offi cial Development Assistance (ODA) channeled through the na� onal budget. It refrains from looking into the source (mul� -lateral, bilateral) and sectoral disbursement and alloca� ons (agriculture, industry and physical, and social infrastructure and so on). 2 Changing paradigms of aid eff ec� veness in Nepal
Page 2: Changing Paradigms Of Aid Effective
Page 5 and 6: Changing Paradigms of Aid Eff ec�
Page 8 and 9: Acknowledgement Six decades of ‘p
Page 10 and 11: Acronyms: AAA Accra Agenda for Ac
Page 12: ODA Offi cial Development Assistanc
Page 16 and 17: Introduc� on: Effectiveness of Fo
Page 18 and 19: Buoyancy of revenue coincides with
Page 20 and 21: the en� re prospects for economic
Page 22 and 23: (NAP) on Aid Eff ec� veness both
Page 24 and 25: the IMF or the World Bank as these
Page 26 and 27: uilding na� onal capacity and par
Page 28 and 29: Tradi� onal global governance as
Page 30 and 31: ut their impact has been mixed. Com
Page 32 and 33: irregular unskilled daily wage labo
Page 34 and 35: cul� vators who live in complex,
Page 36: freedom and social jus� ce, imper
Page 41 and 42: Table 1.2 Foreign Aid in the Budget
Page 43 and 44: more than three-fi � h in the LIC
Page 45 and 46: Table 1.3: Foreign Aid and the Exte
Page 47 and 48: An intriguing fact about the whole
Page 49 and 50: Table 3. Foreign Aid and the Na�
Page 51 and 52: 14 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 100 90 80 70
Page 53 and 54: can absorb a far higher level of de
Page 55 and 56: sources of foreign exchange earning
Page 57 and 58: to increase the magnitude of GNI fr
Page 59 and 60: Table 2.1 : An Interna� onal Comp
Page 61 and 62: is rela� vely higher in Nepal as
Page 63 and 64: accompanied by poor supervision of
Page 65 and 66: conspicuously discouraged investmen
Page 67 and 68: and, therefore, it is impera� ve
Page 69 and 70: (2) How to more eff ec� vely inte
Page 71 and 72: 34 and reduce growing extent of tra
Page 73 and 74: the process of industrial developme
Page 75 and 76: Appendix 2: Quan� ta� ve Target
Page 77 and 78: OAD/Nepal (2010). Report of the Off
Page 79 and 80: focusing on conserving and expandin
Page 81 and 82: 1998, the total disbursement from a
Page 83 and 84: Figure 3: Offi cial Aid 1990-2009 4
Page 85 and 86: poverty. In case of Nepal, access t
Page 87 and 88:
4 Challenge of Managing Aid in Evol
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theories themselves remain vague an
Page 91 and 92:
thought no earlier development theo
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‘Social Capital’ approach of de
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inging all the donors working in Ne
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sustainable and self-reliant develo
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community. This is where eff ec�
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Challenges and Limits to Choice Fac
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5 Foreign Aid Politics in Developin
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targets, some donors will therefore
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avoided. This adds another nuance t
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ut the interna� onal community mu
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6 A bo� om up aid eff ec� venes
Page 113 and 114:
with the overall purpose of se� n
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deepening public par� cipa� on
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off er a minimum denominator for sh
Page 119 and 120:
the actual implementa� on of deve
Page 121 and 122:
“� mely, accurate and accessibl
Page 123 and 124:
Minimum standards for crea� on of
Page 125 and 126:
Nepal Is obviously in a good posi
Page 127 and 128:
Ac� on (AAA). All development act
Page 129 and 130:
presented drawing heavily from the
Page 131 and 132:
Confi dence in Nepal’s procuremen
Page 133 and 134:
8 Aid Eff ec� veness and Gender R
Page 135 and 136:
used in planning and managing gener
Page 137 and 138:
excluded groups (b) examining the g
Page 139 and 140:
9 Governing Emissions Reduc� on:
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organisa� ons to ins� tu� ona
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and increasing GHG sinks (i.e. fore
Page 145 and 146:
“which necessarily engenders an u
Page 147 and 148:
Table 5.2 Breakdown of UNFCCC REDD+
Page 149 and 150:
Quan� ta� ve survey results Tab
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10 Green governance: Development ai
Page 153 and 154:
fi nancial support in the forestry
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The Table shows that community fore
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Livelihood assets off ered by CFUGs
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11 Foreign aid and Educa� on in N
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countries to the poor ones help to
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ilateral ODA from DAC members, comp
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in terms of foreign aid infl ow is
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Table 7.1: Public investment in edu
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agencies in Nepal’s educa� on s
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ecipient in giving and taking forei
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who can be manipulated by any shrew
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12 Does Food Assistance matter? The
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These en� tlements are embedded i
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them to climb out of chronic povert
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assistance. While the bulk of food
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classifi ed as being capable of mai
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seasonal migra� on of men to Indi
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Insurance-eff ects The study reveal
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commodity prices, therefore decreas
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poverty, but yet not helping them t
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156 a situa� on, where people can
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In: Progress in Human Geography 17
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Figure 1: FAO Food Price Index (200
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Figure 3: Retail price of wheat and
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Way forward: Tackling rising food p
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14 Food Insecurity in Nepal: A Pove
Page 205 and 206:
secure access to suffi cient amount
Page 207 and 208:
the distribu� on of this valuable
Page 209 and 210:
structural features, but the domina
Page 211 and 212:
top-down Geneva- and Paris-based mo
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subsequent disbursements spread ove
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is impossible, as pointed out in th
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eason why posi� ve economic and t
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The aid for land reform, as is evid
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ADB’s proposal to strengthen the
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Nepali Rupees in land transac� on
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Sincere thanks to: Birkha B Pun is
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