INTERNATIONAL AID

Author: ZABALA ERRAZTI IDOYE.
Year: 2004.
University: PAÍS VASCO [www.ehu.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y DE LA COMUNICACIÓN.

Summary: In this dissertation examines, from a gender perspective, the activity developed by the World Bank over its history. Issues related to the general policies of the Bank at every stage of its history to extract its main features and the influence that these policies on the lives of women and gender relations. It also examines how is the process of institutionalization of the issues related to Women in Development and Gender in Development within the organization, addressing the organizational aspects and studying the influence of gender units of the institution in the analytical activities and World Bank projects. Finally, draws lessons from the previous analysis, both general policies and the process of institutionalization of the gender perspective, so as to show the limits and potentials of the work he has developed the World Bank to foster a more egalitarian between men and women to increase the chances of development to serve the needs of both sexes.

Author: PALACIOS CORDOBA MARIA DEL MAR.
Year: 2004.
University: CÓRDOBA [www.uco.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: Decentralized cooperation, has experienced a remarkable boom since the middle of the nineties, representing increasingly high percentage of the total official development aid Spanish. Under the decentralized cooperation is puedendiferenciar the cooperaciónque realizanlas comunidadesautónomas, Deputations provincialesy municipalities. The objective of this dissertation is the study of the development cooperation of the municipalities, especially the Andalusian, and within them, the specific case of the city of Cordoba. Our main scenario is that the municipal decentralized cooperation is a form of cooperation focused on human development, participatory, and that is an expression of participatory democracy. The methodology for this research has relied on three core resources: interviews in depth with experts on decentralized cooperation at the state level, with responsibility for technical and political cooperation in the municipal administration, and representatives of NGDOs and Andalusian Cordoba in particular . Meanwhile, the investigation documentary on the phenomenon of decentralized cooperation in general and, specifically, municipal decentralized cooperation, as well as the search for historical documentation in the case of the city of Cordoba. Finally, the quantitative analysis of the municipal cooperation from the databases of the FEMP, and the municipality of Cordoba. Efforts have been made to combine the analysis and quantitative funds from the cooperacióndescentralizadamunicipal, with the analysis cualitativode it. Between principalesconclusiones of this thesis include: 1. Depending on the form of articulating the policy of decentralized cooperation there are two visions of decentralized cooperation. The vision of democratizing the municipal decentralized cooperation, in which the participation of civil society in the definition and implementation of this policy is the most significant feature, which is an expression of participatory democracy. The vision focused on efficiency and control, in which participation is relegated to the implementation of cooperation projects, siendola relationship municipal government and civil society contingent nature. 2. There are different models of decentralized cooperation municipal depending on the concept of development (this is explicitly or not, consciously or not) having local authority officials, and above all the executing organizations (mostly NGDOs). It apuntantres models. The model of care or sympathy demand: supported orthodox theories of development, characterized by low vision estratégíca and long-term actions to promote or humanitarian emergency, by the absence of a proposal for institutional cooperation and development education by relying primarily on cutting NGDO professional and for his vision of cooperation focusing on efficiency and control. . The model and critical solidarity, supported by the heterodox theories of development and characteristic of municipalities that initiate cooperation on political grounds, with a strong partnership network, which will support for defining and implementing the policy of cooperation. Wagering on self projects, support for specific groups and to promote education for the development and critical solidarity, which the modeloha taken his name. Holds unavisión democratizadorade cooperation. . The integrated model and municipal, ba 8 sado in 367 thinking about alternative development, which is moving towards developing a strategy municipal cooperation, enriched with new tools and greater diversidaden the agentesque involved.

Author: BÁEZ MELIÁN JUAN MIGUEL.
Year: 2005.
University: LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA [www.ulpgc.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: The theory part of the description of the current situation of hardship experienced by the Third World and, therefore, needs help to continue all these countries (Chapter I). After a literature review (Chapter II), followed by three other descriptive in nature, for the cooperation that takes place from countries belonging to the Development Assistance Committee, the EU and Spain, respectively. In these chapters discusses the background, sectoral and geographical distributions and other general aspects of the corresponding systems of cooperation. In Chapter VI properly studied the effectiveness of aid to foster the growing economic and / or reduce poverty levels, as well as their effects on major macromagnitues, focusing on the period after the fall of the Berlin Wall: 1990 - 2003. To this end we used various econometric models ranging from ordinary least squares up structural models. The thesis ends with the usual chapter conclusions, which include a series of recommendations affecting the international aid system, the very concept of foreign aid and the methodology used in analyzing the effectiveness of aid.