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Donating Democracy: Measuring the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in Central Asia

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Michaels, Julia

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The promotion of democracy abroad has become a critical national security objective for the United States. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, newly independent states have received millions in aid to facilitate their transition to democracy. A significant portion of this funding has been administered by the United States...

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post-communist countries, with a special focus on the struggling region of Central Asia. The results
Community Driven Development (CDD) in Action: Three Case Studies of International Nongovernmental Development Organizations’ (INGOs’) CDD Practices

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Rhynard-Geil, Meghann

Abstract:

Since the 1980s, NGOs have created a necessary niche for themselves within developing nations addressing poverty “traps” such as: lack of infrastructure, corruption, environmental degradation, conflict, disease, educational paucity, and gender inequality. Due to increasing issues of dependency and failed development projects resulting from a top-down, organizational structure, international nongovernmental...

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projects. In a World Bank report on the sustainability of CDD, it was