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"This book provides an overview of what aid is, how it has changed over time, and how it is practiced, as well as debates about whether aid works, for whom, and what its future might be. It is an important resource for students, development workers and policy makers seeking an u…
There are milliards of off beam assumptions that Africa will always remain immobile in development of whatever type. This pseudo take has mainly been propounded by Western thinkers in order to dubiously make Africans internalise and reinforce this flimsy and flimflam dependency.…
"In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to those who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and dev…
"The Cultural Turn in International Aid is one of the first volumes to analyse a wide and comprehensive range of issues related to culture and international aid in a critical and constructive manner. Assessing why international aid is provided for cultural projects, rather than …
"Threats to the independence of voluntary organizations are the central focus of The Alms Bazaar. These dangers - from governments, from UN agencies, and from charities themselves - are interwoven with other themes; efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, North-South relation…
The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group examined the Bank's experience in disaster prevention and response over the past 20 years and found that the scale of Bank operations has grown over the period. The report found that the Bank has demonstrated considerable flexibility…
Until recently, the term "political settlement" has been used almost interchangeably with "peace agreement". But it has broader implications: political settlements span the continuum from negotiated peace agreements to long-term historical development -- in the latter sense appr…
This edition of the World Bank has been revised and expanded by the Terminology Unit in the Languages Services Division of the World Bank in collaboration with the English, Spanish, and French Translation Sections. The Glossary is intended to assist the Bank's translators and in…
This book explores the nature of moral responsibilities of affluent individuals in the developed world, addressing global poverty and arguments that philosophers have offered for having these responsibilities. The first type of argument grounds responsibilities in ability to ave…
