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Abstract: "There is a substantial literature that critiques the role that international
aid plays in lending support to oppressive and contested regimes. But
few investigators have asked the inverse question: what happens when aid is
withdrawn? Following government oppression in 1988, international aid to
Burma decreased significantly, providing a case study enabling this question
to be addressed. Using Burma as an example, this article asks: if the presence
of aid has been shown to support oppressive and contested regimes, what is
the impact when aid is withdrawn? The article reviews critiques of development
and humanitarian aid and identifies three specific regime-reinforcing
phenomena. It demonstrates that these have not diminished following the
overall decrease of aid to Burma. The paper then addresses the related relationship
between aid flows and refugee flows, and concludes with implications
of the research."...
Keywords: Burma, humanitarian aid, development aid, refugees.....ISSN: 1868-4882 (online), ISSN: 1868-1034 (print)
Source/publisher:
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 2/2009: 47-73
Date of Publication:
2009-00-00
Date of entry:
2011-08-21
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English