Aid and Influence : Do Donors Help or Hinder?
Stephen. Browne
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (193 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Aid and Influence Do Donors Help or Hinder?; Copyright; Contents; List of boxes, tables and figures; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The Great Mismatch; The birth of Bangladesh; Wrong antecedents?; Aid does not match need; The argument; 2 Aid Origins; The institutional beginnings; Multilateral aid; Bilateral aid; 3 Evolving Development Fashions; Phase I: Aid as gap-filling; Phase II: The quality of growth; Phase III: Post-wall good governance; Conclusion; 4 Influence Through Conditionality; The importance of the policy environment; The limits of conditionality. - 7 Donors from the SouthWhat are the origins of Southern aid?; Administering Southern aid; The significance of Southern aid; 8 New Beginnings: A Market for Aid; Six features of 'centrally-planned' aid; Applying the market; But would it happen?; A critical role for ODA: Global public goods; Final word; Notes; References; About the Author; Index. - Wrong in practiceWrong in principle; Political conditionality; Can conditionality be improved?; Conclusion: The need for de-linking; 5 Aid to Fragile States; Failing development performance; Fragility factors: Maturity, government capacity, leadership, conflict; Aiding fragility; The cases of Burma, Rwanda and Zambia; Aid and political will: Engagement and consistency; Aid and capacity; Conclusion; 6 Aid and Imperialism; From Truman I to Bush II; Who gets it?; Aid and the 'war on (Islamic) terror'; New development aid; AIDS and influence; Six aid drivers; Conclusion: But does US aid work?. - Aid is always a means of influence: political, commercial, military and security-related. Some influence is benign, but much of it is coercive, even 'imperialistic'. Given the nature of aid, its effectiveness should be judged not only in developmental terms, but in terms of international relations. Even donors agree that, on both counts, the returns are meagre. This book, drawing on the author's 30 years of field experience, proposes two kinds of solution: donors should climb down from paternalistic central planning practices and support public goods that are neutral and beneficial ? cancellat
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| ISBN | 1844072010. - 1844072029. - 9781844072019. - 9781844072026
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