Introduction/aid origins and motivations

Which was the event that removed the biggest motivations for aid (military) before the 90´s?

• a) The end of the Cold War.

• The creation of UNO.

• Cuban Missile Crisis (1961)

What were the effects that the end of the Cold War brought to the comprehension of aid?

• A new basis of cooperation based on global markets and transactions that rates quality of life through GNP.

• A rupture on the capitalist bloc that enforced the communism in Europe.

• A new basis for cooperation based on quality of life indices as signs of progress and a multilateral system of aid around the world.

How independence movement in the 70´s influenced aid?

• It discouraged donors to give aid due to the fact that colonies (then former colonies) challenged their power.

• It encouraged bilateral aid programs as a compensation, but they were still strategic and have historical nature.

• It allowed former colonies to demand a compensation for the abuses them suffer through aid.

What was the most important milestone for aid during the 60´s?

• Donors set up IDA as a new multilateral kind of aid, it was concessional assistance.

• Donors established patterns of aid based on historical and ideological grounds in order to keep the world order throughout aid programs.

• Recipients were seen as a tool for policymaking for great powers and it boosted new agendas that sought “equality”.

What is the concept of foreign aid in the 40's and why is this related to the beginning of the cold war?

• Safeguard peace, multilateral cooperation and competition of opposing blocs

• Multilateral cooperation, transnational cooperation and humanitarian aid

• Humanitarian aid, safeguard peace and interdependence

Strategic patterns of aid were influenced by geopolitical developments while non-strategic ones were influenced by the analysis of the way aid is believed to contribute to development in recipients.

• True

• False