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From Unconditional Solidarity to Conditional Evaluability: Competing Notions of Conditionality and the Swedish Aid Model
Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Institute of Contemporary History.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0832-3993
2021 (English)In: Do-Gooders at the End of Aid: Scandinavian Humanitarianism in the Twenty-First Century / [ed] Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée; Kristian Bjørkdahl, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, p. 171-193Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter analyzes how competing notions of conditionality – primarily tensions between efficiency and solidarity – have played out in debates and discourses on development aid since the 1960s in one Scandinavian country and a small, yet highly profiled donor – Sweden. Repeated and shifting demands for accountability and transparency serve as a probe into the complex, competing, and often fluctuating aims, goals, and motives of international development aid. The chapter argues that current debates on “the end of aid” are informed by a historical and unresolved tension between “unconditional solidarity” on the one hand and “conditional efficiency” on the other: Demands for openness elucidate competing aims of aid, indicating a paradox in the transparency paradigm in contemporary development aid discourse, whereby efficient aid – as manifested in economic growth – eventually leads to the end of aid while its alleged inefficiency – as evidenced in social inequality – ensures its continued legitimacy.

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. p. 171-193
Keywords [en]
Development aid, Nordic model of aid, Swedish model, accountability, conditionality, efficiency, legitimacy, solidarity, transparency
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History
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Politics, Economy and the Organization of Society
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50491DOI: 10.1017/9781108772129.009OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-50491DiVA, id: diva2:1724061
Available from: 2023-01-04 Created: 2023-01-04 Last updated: 2023-01-05Bibliographically approved

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