Carlos Afonso escribió:
>Interesante. SIDA, como la CIDA de Canada, la USAID y muchas otras
>agencias de "desarrollo internacional" de países desarrollados son creadas
>para estimular la "ayuda atada" (tied aid), incluyendo en los proyectos
>consultoría, equipos y servicios varios originarios del país "donante".
Ver al respecto la campaña "Untie aid" (Desatar la ayuda) promovida por
Action Aid desde el Reino Unido
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/index.asp?page_id=1097
>Actionaid thinks that attaching economic policy conditions to the
>lending of international financial institutions is:
>a.. unfair: it reinforces the unequal relationship between donors
>and poor countries
>b.. undemocratic: such conditions undermine local democracy -
>handing significant influence over domestic policies to unelected,
>unanswerable and unaccountable donors
>c.. ineffective: all sides recognise that conditions that are only
>artifically 'owned' by the country are unlikely to be successful in the
>long run
>d.. inappropriate: most importantly, economic policy conditions such
>as the privatisation of basic services are failing the poor.
>
>The world's poorest countries rely heavily on aid from the World Bank, IMF
>and bilateral donors such as the UK, giving donors a powerful influence
>over poor countries' public policy.
>The influence of aid donors is being abused by the practice of tying aid
>to risky and unproven economic policy conditions such as water and energy
>privatisation.
>Despite recent attempts to increase poor countries' 'ownership' of policy
>reforms, such as the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), new
>ActionAid research has found that controversial policies such as utility
>privatisation continue to be pushed strongly by the donor agencies. Where
>poor countries fail to comply with these conditions, donors withhold aid money.
>ActionAid believes that tying aid to economic policy conditions such as
>privatisation is unfair, undemocratic, ineffective, and inappropriate.
>Most importantly, ActionAid case studies of donor-driven utility
>privatisation in India, Ghana and Uganda found that poor people's needs
>are being neglected in the drive to attract private capital to water and
>energy.
>While there is no quick fix to the challenge of providing universal basic
>services, ActionAid believes that solutions have to be home-grown, and
>home-owned. Donors need to step back from intrusive policy conditions, and
>allow poor countries to reach policy decisions in a balanced and
>transparent way.
Saludos,
Rosa Maria Torres
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