I am working on an article provisionally entitled "Rule of Law in Kosovo - Why So Much Effort Has Achieved So Little". Any suggestions where specific data on specific programs can be found will be much appreciated.
Sounds like you already know even without the data. You may be right for other reasons known to you, but the level of aid is perhaps not a good measure of effort to achieve results other than respond to some needs. To be helpful to your question we may need to know what you mean by "effort" and by "results." The two may not be aligned in a straightforward manner.
Thank you, Sanda. I am pursuing several lines of argument. One is, of course, that external aid is generally problematic. Books like Roger Riddell: Does Foreign Aid Really Work; or William Easterly: The White Man's Burden - Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and so Little Good; as well as Dambisa Moyo: Dead Aid - Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (and several others) make this case and stand in contrast to Jeffrey Sachs: The End of Poverty, who basically just wants to add $195 billion to current aid levels expecting somehow that they won't disappear where most of the money so far has gone. More interesting to me is the discussion of absorptive capacity among economists, i.e. the level of foreign money that can be efficiently spent in a country without excessive waste, corruption, and the problems of the so-called Dutch disease. To continue this line of inquiry, I would like to have more precise data on the quantity of aid and the remittances by the diaspora than I currently have. My third line of inquiry is not quantitative but qualitative and I am trying to show mismanagement and incompetence in the way UNMIK and EULEX and others worked in Kosovo. I hope this clarifies a bit what I am working on.
i can see that is a very interesting question for me as I am working in the reason behind the US-aid and is it ethical or interest wise ?
also i have no clear data about the aid given to kosovo - I cant find a clear reason why i have no info about that - but i can see that this is a clear case with an Applicable conditions for aid receiving particularly form USA !!!
Fouad, at some point, we could communicate about doing a study on aid for Egypt. I directed the USAID-funded project that brought the Indiana University Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program to the Faculties of Law at Cairo and Alexandria Universities from 2007 to 2013. One of the interesting conversations I had was with an internal reviewer at USAID who was researching why every single one of the 70 or so education partnerships that USAID had funded in Egypt over a period of 30 years fell apart after the funding ended. The short answer she found: USAID discontinued the funding every single time too soon, before the partnerships could become self-sustaining. This, of course, does not mean that they learned anything and are doing business differently now...