How Do We Help?: The Free Market in Development Aid
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Overview
But can each and everybody become a development worker? Who decides what is acceptable and what is not? What is the role of the developing countries themselves? Who can tell what is good aid and what is bad aid? Is it a free market allowing everybody to do what he wants? A market without rules, with a lot of competition and little cooperation?
This book draws up the balance sheet of 50 years of development aid and provides an overview of all relevant players, of opportunities and obstacles, of successes and failures. It details numerous examples and information on development projects from all over the world. Readers may be tempted to get involved in development aid, but they will also be more cautious than before.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789058679024 |
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| Publisher: | Leuven University Press |
| Publication date: | 07/15/2012 |
| Pages: | 264 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Preface 11
Introduction 15
Development cooperation: community, arena and, increasingly, market 21
An expanding community 24
An arena with plenty to fight over 33
A market with many transactions 37
From colonialism to the Millennium Development Goals 49
Colonial warm-up exercises 49
Technical cooperation and knowledge transfer 53
Faith in development aid 56
Development cooperation: aid in a global setting 59
The Washington Consensus and structural adjustments 60
International cooperation and the Millennium Development Goals 62
Addressing poverty in exchange for debt relief 68
Is Paris introducing order to the market? 73
More than development aid 78
Cooperation means partners 83
Internationally: among specialists 83
Recipient countries: donor darlings and donor orphans 89
Official bilateral cooperation: fractions and fragmentation 97
Small players and institutional pluralism 97
In search of an institutional foundation for development cooperation 100
Decentralisation in order to get closer to the public, or for other reasons? 102
Europe's development cooperation patchwork 107
Seeking identity and complementarity 109
From Yaoundé to Cotonou: from association to agreement 110
Strengths and weaknesses of the ACP-EU partnership 112
The Cotonou Agreement 114
The European Development Fund 118
Other instruments 119
Europe: a major pioneer? 121
A Choice in favour of Africa? 124
Multilateral cooperation: the UN galaxy 125
The UN and development cooperation 126
The World Bank: not a cooperative 130
Regional development banks 132
The United Nations Development Programme 133
The rise of new vertical programmes on the UN market 134
'Deliver as one': seeking cooperation on the market 137
The NGDOs: bringing values onto the market 139
A movement with many faces 140
A sector with many roles 141
Several generations of NGDOs 144
A sector with many different visions and strategies 147
A movement with a plural support base 153
The sector breaks free from the NGDOs 155
Is a new social movement becoming a network movement? 156
A fourth pillar on the market 159
The key players of the fourth pillar 160
A new generation of altruists? 181
Starting from a different field 183
An alternative way of working 185
Mainstreaming development cooperation 187
Humanitarian aid: in good shape or going downhill? 191
What place for emergency aid? 193
Needs and promises 196
Cash-and-carry on the market? 199
The unbearable lightness of the support for development cooperation 201
The uneasy relationship with the support base 201
No (more) aid fatigue? 203
Popular, yet little understood 205
Something needs to be done: but by whom? 206
Drawing up the balance sheet 209
Progress, but too little, too slowly and not for everyone 209
Are we really that generous? 216
Who is receiving aid? 218
The effectiveness and impact of development cooperation 219
Development cooperation: a stumbling-block? 226
Conclusion 231
Abbreviations 237
Endnotes 243
Glossary 247
Bibliography 255