| dc.description.abstract | Foreign aid is a major feature of North-South
interactions. The transaction embraced in the current
concepts of foreign aid however, are of various kinds.
In this enquiry, our attention is confined to one; to a
set of activities and engagements in which means are
justified and ostensibly provided for economic and
attendant social purposes.
In this study, we consider foreign aid as a
component of foreign policy; aid programs are shaped
and provided with the interests of the donor primarily
in mind. And although donor countries normally
truncate the philanthropic nature of aid transactions.
what belies this public posturing is entenched economic
and political priorities in which aid is an important
instrument.
But the world, in all its salient aspects is
always in a state
predictability of aid
in the face of the
international life?
This study attempts to elucidate certain elements
of flux, what then is the
as a component of foreign policy
vicissitudes and surprises of
and links in the vortex of aid transactions.Through an asemblage of historlcal
iterpratations! we hope to
undercurrent of the F.R.G - Kenya
and explain them.
In our inquiry of the F.R.G and to Kenya, we
help
notes and
locate the
aid in perspective
attempt an analysis of The relationships between
domestic pressures and foreign policies generated,
attitudes and responses in the recipient country and
the international implications of the and relationship
between the two countries.
Geo-political and geo-economic reasons are Identified Kenya. The
as the major planks of the F.R.G aid to
prominence of both interests have existed
rather simultaneously but emphasis on geo-economic
Interests has taken the centre stage In the 1980's,
while geo-political concerns were more pronounced in
the 1960's in mood with heightened hostility between
the Eastern and Western blocs in a bi-polarised
international system.
In view of the current fundamental changes in the
international system, there is, therefore likely to be
a shift in priorities of the F.R.G aid concurrent with
changing foreign policy goals, possibly culminating in
a deterioration in the F.R.G aid to Kenya
Consequently, Kenya needs to look more inwardly into
usefully exploiting her resources in order to
positively readjust to such changes. | en |
