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Dissertation
The use of United States aid as a tool to improve human rights performance: An empirical analysis
1996
Overview
The United States was the world's largest granter of foreign aid from the end of World War II until it was surpassed by Japan in 1989. As with any foreign policy instrument, political, economic and ideological considerations lay behind American decisions on when, where, and how to give aid. Aid can be used to enhance potential relationships, address the economic needs of both the U.S. and recipient countries, and to further U.S. ideological interests and values. The expected return will often depend on the specific aid recipient and surrounding circumstances. Perhaps one of the most controversial questions surrounding the use of aid is the influence it may have on a recipient's human rights performance. In the mid-1970s Congress took steps to tie U.S. foreign aid to the human rights performance of aid recipients. With Congress linking human rights concerns to U.S. foreign policy the relationship between aid and human rights has become an issue of both theoretical interest and policy importance. Despite a lack of of empirical evidence that establishes a positive relationship between U.S. aid and improved recipient nation performance it remains U.S. policy to grant aid to countries with what the U.S. defines as a satisfactory or improving human rights record. This study attempts to determine if there is a significant relationship between U.S. aid and the improvement in human rights performance of the receiving countries. The analysis indicates that aid is not consistently used as a tool to help improve the human rights performance of the recipient nations, but that it shows some promise that aid could be used for that purpose.
