Impact of foreign aid on rwanda's socio-economic development as guided by Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 “Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger”:case of Gasabo District

• DECLARATION
  
• DEDICATION
  
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  
• ABSTRACT
  
• LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
  
• LIST OF APPENDICES
  
• ACRONYMS
  
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
• CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
  
  • 1.1 Background to the Study
    
  • 1.2 Statement of the Problem
    
  • 1.3 Research Questions
    
  • 1.4 Objectives of the Study
    
  • 1.5 Assumptions of the Study
    
  • 1.6 Significance and Justification of the Study
    
  • 1.7 Definition of key terms
    
    • 1.7.1 Socio-economic development
      
    • 1.7.2 Impact
      
    • 1.7.3 Foreign aid
      
    • 1.7.4 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
      
    • 1.7.5 Poverty
      
  • 1.8 Delimitation of the Study
    
  • 1.9 Limitations of the study
    
  • 1.10 Organisation of the Study
    
  • 1.11 Chapter summary
    
• CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
  
  • 2.0 Introduction
    
  • 2.1 Theoretical Frameworks
    
    • 2.1.1 The Modernization Theory and Foreign Aid
      
    • 2.1.2 The Dependency Theory and Foreign Aid
      
    • 2.1.3 Interactionism and Foreign Aid
      
    • 2.1.4 Feminism and Foreign Aid
      
  • 2.2 Conceptualizing aid, development, poverty and hunger
    
  • 2.3 History of Foreign Aid in Rwandan Economy
    
    • 2.3.1 Aid Effectiveness in Rwanda
      
    • 2.3.2 The Politics of Official Development Assistance on Rwanda
      
    • 2.3.3 The World Bank and UNDP Poverty Indicators-Indices
      
  • 2.4 Foreign Aid and Economic Development in LDCs
    
    • 2.4.1 General Global Trends
      
    • 2.4.2 Foreign Aid and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
      
    • 2.4.3 Challenges Experienced by Government in Making External Aid Effective
      
  • 2.5 Implications of Literature Review
    
  • 2.6 Chapter summary
    
• CHAPTER TRHEE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
  
  • 3.0 Introduction
    
  • 3.1 Research Design
    
    • 3.1.1 Research Design - An overview
      
    • 3.1.2 Exploratory and Descriptive Phases of the Research Project
      
    • 3.1.3 An overview of the existing situation of the Gasabo District as the case study
      
    • 3.1.4 Sources of Data
      
    • 3.1.5 Types of data
      
    • 3.1.6 Target Population, Sampling and Sampling Procedures
      
  • 3.2 Data gathering instruments
    
    • 3.2.1 An Overview
      
    • 3.2.2 Structured in-depth Interviews
      
    • 3.2.3 The Questionnaire method
      
    • 3.2.4 Focussed Group Discussions
      
    • 3.2.5 Documentary analysis/content analysis procedures
      
    • 3.2.6 Observational schedules (Participant and non-participant
      
    • observation)
      
  • 3.3 Data presentation and analysis
    
  • 3.4 Chapter summary
    
• CHAPTER FOUR: DATA PRESENTATION, INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS
  
  • 4.0 Introduction
    
  • 4.1 Discussion of questionnaire findings
    
    • 4.1.2 Quali-Quantitative Analysis of Questionnaire Data
      
      • 4.1.2.1 Gendered perceptions on poverty as Rwanda's threat to socio-economic development
        
      • 4.1.2.2 Views on whether poverty is a threat to Rwanda's socio-economic development by organizations
        
      • 4.1.2.3 Views on whether Poverty has functional benefits to society
        
      • 4.1.2.4 Perceptions of the impact of foreign aid on the Rwandan economy
        
      • 4.1.2.5 Views on whether Foreign Aid creates Dependency on Rwanda by Organization
        
      • 4.1.2.6 Gendered Perceptions of Foreign aid and dependency
        
      • 4.1.2.7 Knowledge of the existence of MDGs in Rwanda
        
      • 4.1.2.8 Ranking of MDGs according to priority
        
      • 4.1.2.10 Sustainability of Foreign Aid in Rwanda's Socio-economic development
        
      • 4.1.2.11 Perceptions of Beneficiaries of Foreign Aid in Rwanda
        
      • 4.1.2.12 Relations of the Government of Rwanda and the Donor Community Figure 4.8
        
      • 4.1.2.13 Beneficiaries of Donor Community from 2000-2009 Figure 4.9:
        
      • 4.1.2.14 Availability of Technical Challenges with regards to Implementation of MDGs
        
      • 4.1.2.15 Ranking Rwanda's main Resources in order of importance
        
    • 4.2.1 Interview data from administrators
      
      • 4.2.1.1 Interpretation and Analysis
        
    • 4.2.2 Data from Observational schedules
      
    • 4.2.3 Documentary Analysis Procedures
      
      • 4.2.3.1 Registers of Donors
        
      • 4.2.3.2 Interpretation and analysis
        
  • 4.3 Chapter summary
    
• CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARIES, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
  
  • 5.0 Introduction
    
  • 5.1 Summary of the major findings
    
  • 5.2 Conclusion of the study
    
  • 5.3 Recommendations for this study
    
• REFERENCES
  
• APPENDICES
  
  • A. PRELIMINARIES