How the Aid Industry Works An Introduction to International Development

Name: How the Aid Industry Works An Introduction to International Development
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ISBN: 9781565492875

ISBN-10: 1565492870

ISBN-13: 9781565492875

Edition: 2009

Authors: Arjan de Haan, Arjan de Haan

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International development is big business. Official global aid flows from North to South are over100 billion annually. China and India, former aid recipients, are rapidly entering the field as aid providers themselves, and international charity is being redefined with the resources of private donors like the Gates Foundation, for example, outstripping the annual budget of long-time donors like the UK, Canada or the World Health Organization. Lacking in the literature on international development is an introductory text that provides an overview of the practices of the "business" of development. How the Aid Industry Works provides a basic description of what aid practices are and how they…

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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Publication date: 6/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




Why is aid contested?



The aid industry defined



How the thinking about aid and international development has evolved



Development projects: rationale and critique



Hard-nosed development: reforms, adjustment, governance



Country-led approaches and donor coordination: can the aid industry let go?



Development's poor cousins: environment, gender, participation, rights



How does the industry knows what works and what doesn't?



Challenges for the 21st Century