Aid and Influence Do Donors Help or Hinder?

Name: Aid and Influence Do Donors Help or Hinder?
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ISBN: 9781844072026

ISBN-10: 1844072029

ISBN-13: 9781844072026

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stephen Browne

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* Exposes the selfish motivations behind the Western international aid regime, uncovers who gives and why and the culture of imperialism, financial control, and globalization * Authored by Stephen Browne, a Director at the UN and the man who coined the term "Millennium Development Goals" * Controversial reading for everyone in international aid and development governments, NGOs, to field-workers, donors, and researchers As the world struggles to come to grips with failure in Africa and to meet the Millennium Development Goals worldwide, the clamor grows for a doubling of development assistance. But it is increasingly clear that aid has fallen woefully short of delivering the necessary help…

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List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Stephen Browne a Director at the UN with over twenty-five years' experience in international aid and development, produced the first country progress report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), coining the term. His books include "Developing Capacity through Technical Cooperation" (2002) and "Beyond Aid" (1999).



List of boxes, tables and figures


List of acronyms and abbreviations


Preface: An Aid Memoir


Acknowledgements



The Great Mismatch


The birth of Bangladesh


Wrong antecedents?


Aid does not match need


The argument



Aid Origins


The institutional beginnings


Multilateral aid


Bilateral aid



Evolving Development Fashions



Aid as gap-filling



The quality of growth



Post-wall good governance


Conclusion



Influence through Conditionality


The importance of the policy environment


The limits of conditionality


Wrong in practice


Wrong in principle


Political conditionality


Can conditionality be improved?


Conclusion: The need for de-linking



Aid to Fragile States


Failing development performance


Fragility factors: Maturity, government capacity, leadership, conflict


Aiding fragility


The cases of Burma, Rwands and Zambia


Aid and political will: Engagement and consistency


Aid and capacity


Conclusion



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?



Donors from the South


What are the origins of Southern aid?


Administering Southern aid


The significance of Southern aid



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