Abstract
Over the last f ive decades, the UN and OECD/DAC have strongly urged member states to comply with global aid norms to improve aid effectiveness. To what extent are the global aid norms actually put in practice in countries that have pledged themselves to comply with these norms? Norm life cycle theory explains the internalization of global norms as legalization, institution-building, and official policies at the national level. This study supplements the norm lifecycle theory by subdividing the process of norm internalization into the policy formation stage and the post-implementation stage at the national level and empirically examines it by employing five criteria: ODA/GNI ratio; aid to LDCs; the ratio of grant to loan; aid-untying; and fragmentation. The results show that some aid norms are well accepted and implemented at both stages while other norms are neither addressed in official aid policies nor put into practice.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 685-711 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Korea Observer |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:* This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2018S1A3A2075117). ** First Author. Senior Research Fellow, Korea Eximbank; E-mail: jy.hong@koreaexim.go.kr *** Professor, Yonsei University; E-mail: heonjoojung@yonsei.ac.kr **** Professor, Kyunghee University; E-mail: hsohn@khu.ac.kr ***** Corresponding Author. Research Professor, Seoul National University of Science and Technology; E-mail: a9hero@hanmail.net
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Social Sciences(all)