The first extended analysis of selectivity policies of important bilateral and multilateral aid donors, this book combines a policy-analytical with a quantitative-empirical approach.
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A concise, comprehensive and critical introduction to the subject of NGOs and development. This critical overview will be useful to students of development studies at undergraduate and masters levels, as well as to more general readers and practitioners.
Celebrity Humanitarianism: the Ideology of Global Charity
by Kapoor, Ilan
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In the last two decades especially, we have witnessed the rise of ' celebrity' forms of global humanitarianism and charity work, spearheaded by entertainment stars, billionaires, and activist NGOs (e. g. Bob Geldof, Bono, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Bill Gates, George Soros, Save D…
Celebrity humanitarianism: the ideology of global charity
by Kapoor, Ilan
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Type: Book
In the last two decades especially, we have witnessed the rise of 'celebrity' forms of global humanitarianism and charity work, spearheaded by entertainment stars, billionaires, and activist NGOs (e.g. Bob Geldof, Bono, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Bill Gates, George Soros, Save Dar…
Participatory Development (PDev) has been embraced by Third World governments and international organizations such as the World Bank as a means to reduce poverty and empower disadvantaged communities. This book assesses the fit between policy, practice and theory of PDev to focu…
This book explores what attracts people to aidwork and to what extent the promises of aidwork are fulfilled. 'Aidland' is a highly complex and heterogeneous context which includes many different occupations, forms of employment and organizations. Analysing the processes that lea…
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…
Celebrity advocacy and international development
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Celebrity advocacy is a curious phenomenon. It occupies a significant proportion of the public domain, but does so without engaging particularly well with much of the public. Yet this may not matter very much. Many people at the core of advocacy, and in political and business el…
Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid: Value for Money and Aid for Trade provides updated information on how to improve foreign aid programs, exploring the concept and practice of impact assessment within the sometimes-unproblematic approaches advocated in current literature of va…
In spite of shared rhetorical commitments to tackling poverty worldwide, donors have varied considerably in their use of aid as an instrument for global poverty reduction. This book explains varied donor priorities by examining how societal actors, governmental actors, and the i…
With case studies drawn from Mozambique, Ethiopia and Afghanistan, this book provides a critical and historically informed analysis of the NGO movement, humanitarian intervention, sustainable development, human security, coherence, fragile states, migration and the place of raci…
Is 'development' a solution for positive social change or a cynical western strategy for maintaining inequality? Do African NGOs represent a flourishing civil society or the strategic allocation of external resources by local elites? Moving beyond an increasingly polarized debat…
