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3. Aid-Supported Policies and Programmes

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Abstract

This chapter is the first part of a critical analysis of the aid-supported programs and institutions/mechanisms of international aid. Albania is not an exception among developing countries, where international aid organisations have played a role both as facilitators of policy transfer and as sources of pressure for reform (Martin 1993; Wright 1994; Common 1998). Thus, in the formative years following the collapse of communism up until 2000, the policies of those organisations including the WB, the EU, the EBRD, the UNDP and the USAID had one element in common: application of aid conditionality as pressure on transitional governments to adopt reforms (Ruli 2003; Elbasani 2009). Therefore, aid policy as reflected in the interventions of international organisations in the early years of transition targeted ‘state-building’ broadly rather than public administration reform, as a strategic approach towards the country’s development.

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Fußnoten
1
Under the PHARE (Poland and Hungary Assistance for the Restructuring of the Economy) Programme (1991–2000), the EC delivered a total of €635 million in the form of external assistance to Albania.
 
2
Albanian: Departamenti i Administratës Publike (DAP).
 
3
Albanian: The Status of Civil Servants.
 
4
The CARDS Programme will be discussed at length further in this chapter.
 
5
The total value of the World Bank’s PAR Programme was €5.8 million (Source: DSDC 2009).
 
6
Human Resources Management Information System.
 
7
Comparative management literature refers to ‘mandarin’, an equivalent term to describe senior civil service positions (Pollitt and Bouckaert 2004).
 
8
PAR was funded through a WB grant as part of the assistance of the WB to the GoA.
 
9
The report is part of the WB’s Albania Development Policy Loan II (2008).
 
10
Stabilization and Association Agreement.
 
11
See Table 3.1.
 
12
Under IPA I, HRM capacity building was only available to candidate countries (IPA 2008).
 
13
The amount allocated by the EC for the implementation of PPF per se was €1 m (DSDC 2010).
 
14
See Table 3.1.
 
15
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit/German Agency for International Cooperation.
 
16
Technical Assistance, Information and Exchange.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Aid-Supported Policies and Programmes
verfasst von
Artan Karini
Copyright-Jahr
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97834-5_3