Foreign Aid in North Korea: Can We Meet? : Development strategies for the Democratic People s Republic of Korea proposed by its government and the international donor community

ISBN-13: 9783639169126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 196 str.

Pia Lindström; Mikael Staaf

Opis

In the mid-1990s the outside world responded to asevere famine hitting North Korea and startedassisting several millions of people. In September 2005 the North Korean government announced that theinternational humanitarian assistance was no longerdesired. This resulted in a large gap between thetype of assistance North Korea wanted to receive,and the assistance that the international donorcommunity was prepared to provide to the country.The empirical evidence of this study, collectedduring a field trip of three weeks to North Korea in 2006, identifies the development strategies of therespective parties. The study evaluates the realismof the two parties development strategies, resulting in an analysis of when and where there is room for North Korea and the international donor community to agree on foreign assistance to the country. The precarious conditions of the North Korean people call for continued efforts to solve the current situation and reduce the gap between the North Korean government and foreign donors. This underlines the need for academics, policy makers and aid workers to deepen our understanding of when and where we can meet.

O autorze

Pia Lindström, M.Sc., B.Sc.: Studied International Economics at
the Stockholm School of Economics and Political Science at
Stockholm University. Currently working at the UNDP in
Bhutan.
Mikael Staaf, M.Sc.: Studied International Economics at the
Stockholm School of Economics. Currently working at the Swedish
Ministry for Foreign Affairs.