Foreign Aid
Funded MA & PhD: Sociology of Development
Two graduate student positions (1 PhD; 1 MA) are available beginning in September 2017 to assist with the project Developing Conformity: Foreign Aid and the Diffusion of Global Norms in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada (http://www.mun.ca/soc/). Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), this […]
Tags: #Conformity #Foreign Aid #Global Norms #International development #international development studies
U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia (McVety, 2012)
On US foreign aid: “In its most optimistic moments, the U.S. government truly believed that by doing good it could indeed do well. The problem is that foreign aid seems to have done more harm than it has good, which means that the United States has not done nearly as well as it hoped.” (p. […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Expectations of Development #Foreign Aid #Foreign Policy #politics of famine
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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