Unintended Effects: Backlash to aid and undermining social contracts

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Fragile Truths

Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law

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This podcast is about distilling the most important findings of cutting edge research, and capturing conversations between researchers and policy officers about the ideas and assumptions driving current Security & Rule of Law policy. As we find out, what may be assumed as a reliable fact or a solid truth can sometimes crack under scrutiny. The conversations are hosted by Christian Kuitert (KPSRL).

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Unintended Effects: Backlash to aid and undermining social contracts

Fragile Truths

29 minutes 2 seconds

2 years ago

Unintended Effects: Backlash to aid and undermining social contracts

There is a growing resentment toward Western aid in recipient countries. There are many possible reasons why: a history of double agendas from donors, creating dependencies; a strong desire for self-determination; an increasingly multipolar world – the list goes on.

It’s about time to discuss the unexpected outcomes of aid that can lead to the backlash or undermining of the social contract in recipient countries. We discuss this with our guest Dirk-Jan Koch, Chief Science Officer at the Dutch MFA who wrote the upcoming book ‘Foreign Aid and its Unintended Consequences’. Our other guest, Haley J. Swedlund, Associate Professor, Radboud University, did research on how aid can distort in-country priorities, but can also be used in nationalist politicians’ anti-Western propaganda.

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To get in touch with Dirk-Jan Koch, you can follow him on ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠Twitter, or check out his website here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. To follow the work of Haley J. Swedlund, you can follow her on LinkedIn or Twitter, or check out her website here. Supplemental reading:

⁠⁠⁠Click here⁠⁠⁠ for Dirk-Jan Koch's new book "Foreign Aid and its Unintended Consequences"
Click here for Haley J. Swedlund's report "Power Dynamics in Foreign Aid"

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