"International development is big business. Official global aid flows from North to South are over $100 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 res…
"How the Aid Industry Works provides a concise introduction to the business of development—to what aid practices are, and how they have evolved. Arjan de Haan also assesses the arguments of both proponents and opponents of aid and presents illustrative examples of actual project…
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 ai…
"International development is big business. Official global aid flows from North to South are over $100 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 res…
International development is big business. Official global aid flows from North to South are over $100 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 reso…
"International development is big business. Official global aid flows from North to South are over $100 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 res…
Explores the implications of the 'good governance' agendas for developing and newly democratized countries. This book assesses each item on the 'good governance' agenda for its contribution to development and the cost to society of bad governance. It examines the view of the int…
Brian Smith offers an exploration of the implications of the 'good governance' agendas for developing and newly democratised countries.
In a globalizing world, the world's wealthiest nations have found it increasingly difficult to insulate themselves from the residual impacts associated with underdevelopment abroad. Many of the ills associated with, and exacerbated by, underdevelopment-illegal migration, politic…
As industrialized countries find it increasingly difficult to insulate themselves from residual impacts associated with underdevelopment abroad, they now pursue a strategy of "targeted development," in which they fund and advocate for development projects when and where it serve…
